The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-14 00:00:00

DUTCH FUNDS.

AMSTERDAM BOURSE, SEPT. 11.—Inland Funds were
without variation to-day. Commercial Company's share,
again in demand, at higher prices. Spanish and Portu-
guese without fluctuation. Austrian firmer in price.
French maintained at goci'd prices. South American
without 'variation.

DUTCH FUNDS.—AtISTEhDAM• SEPT. 11.
Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 2 per Cent........... 53% 54%
Ditto, 3 per Cent ................ 63% 64
Ditto, 4 per Cent........... •....... 844 83%
Ainort Syndic, 3% per Cent.......... 83% 84 yi
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent 164 165%
Spanish New 5 per Conts. • ..
Ditto 3 per Cont., Inland ••• • •
Exchangeon London, at sight ••• • • • 12.075
Two months... .... •.• . • . 12.02
On Hamburgh, at sight 35.12
Two months... . • 34.93
On Paris, at sight •• • •• •• •• 57
Tw0m0nth5............... 56.62

THE WOUNDED of the PUNJAUB

CIIATHAM, SEPT. 11.—This afternoon the wounded
soldiers from the battles of the Punjaub arrived at
the e Invalid Depot, Fort Pitt, end it was a mournful
si▪
ght to see the number of poor fellows that are maimed
of their limbs. Twenty of the men have each lost
an arm, and eight men have each lost a leg, several
others are severely wounded, particularly two men of
the 10th Foot, Corporal Leggett and private Griffin.
There were several of the military from the gar
ri▪
son present to witness the arrival of their
comrades. The wounded consist of the follow-
ing detachments, viz.:—Sergeant M'Caskie, of the
3d Light Dragoons, who has lost his left arm, and
one sergeant and two privates, both maimed, of the
14th Light Dragoons ; two sergeants and 12 privates
of the 24th Regiment (2d Warwickshire) ; one
sergeant and 10 privates, with one woman, 10th
Foot (North Lincoln) ; one corporal and four pri
vates, with one woman and three children 221 Reg;.
ment (Cheshire); eight privates and one woman, 29th
(Worcestershire) ; five privates, 32d Regiment (Corn-
wall) ; and one corporal and six privates, with one wo
!can and three children, 61st (South Gloucestershire)
The troops were medically inspected by the chief me-
di▪
cal officer, Dr. Walter Henry, and three men were im-
mediately sent into the hospital. The remainder
were forwarded in vans to the depot, St. Mary's
Barracks, to await an examination by a Chelsea
Board. The troops are in charge of Captain A. J.
Macpherson, of the 24th, who is wounded in his left
arm. This officer entered the battle of Chillianwallah
sixth lieutenant, and came out of it a captain. The
regiment' lost in less than one hour 519 killed
and wounded, including 23 officers. Assistant-
Surgeon W. G. Trousdell, of the 29th, is in medical
charge of the detachment. Both these officers are on
leave of absence for two years. With the above in-
valids were seven lunatics and one convict of the 78th
Highlanders. The troops sailed from Bombay, by
the ship Herefordshire, 1,350 tons burden, Captain
Richardson, and put in at St. Helena on the 17th of
July, where they remained one night and one day,
and arrived off Gravesend this day after a passage of
121 days. During the voyage they lost one man of
the 14th Light Dragoons, Sergeant Harwood, and
one man of the Company's service; also Captain
Prowther and Lieutenant Delamot, both of the same
service The troops belonging to the Company's
service which came by the ship were conveyed to
London. The Queen's troops speak very highly of
the kind treatment they received on board from the
captain, and indeed from all hands.

ALARMING FlRE.—About two o'clock yesterday
lfternoon a fire broke out at the farm of Granton Mains,
occupied by Mr. M`Dougall. The fire was first dis-
covered proceeding from the barn, and no time was lost
in raising an alarm throughout the neighbourhood. In-
formation having been sent to Edinburgh of the occur-
rence, two engines were speedily on the spot, as were
llto two engines and a party of Artillery from Leith
Fort, followed by a party of 24 French Marines with a
'mall and unique engine and apparatus of peculir con-
struction from the French corvette Prevoyant, at present
lying off Granton. By the combined exertions of this
extensive agency the fire was totally extinguished in the
course of a few hours, beingeonfined to the barn and mill-
shed, in which was a valuable thrashing-mill. The loss
is estimated at between 4001. and 5001.—Edinburgh
Advertiser.
Nonwzca.—On the news of the death of the
Bishop of Norwich reaching this city, on Tuesday, a
olineral feeling of regret was manifested among the in-
habitants; and all the shops in the city were, without
previous concert, half closed, in testimony of the respect
felt for the character and virtues of the venerated prelate,
whose intercouse with the citizens had always been of
the most friendly nature, and whose charities were as
much distinguisned for their liberality of feeling as for
their munificence. _

—Cleni-us is lord of the world. Men labour at the
foundation of society, while the lowly lark, unseen and
little prized, sits hard by, in his neat on the earth,
gathering strength to bear his song up to the sun.
Slowly rise basement and monumental aisle, column and
architrave, dome and lofty tower; and when the cloud.
piercing spire is burnished with gold, and the fabric
stands perfect and wondrous, up springs the forgotten
lark, with airy wheel, to the pinnacle, and standing
poised and unwondering on his giddy perch, he pours
out his celestial music till his bright footing trembles
with harmony. And when the song is done, and mount-
ing thence, ho soars away to fill his exhausted heart at
the fountains of the sun, the dwellers in the towers
below look up to the gilded spire and shout—not to the
burnished shaft, but to the lark—lost from it in the sky.
—N. P. Cook's Journal.
WARNING TO WwEs.7--Says a correspondent of
the 25th ult., " I will thaak you to put the following
lines in your paper. Caution to hot-tempered wifes
when your husband gnarls never leave the house for fear
of a padlock a young couple living in the -- Market
quarled the other day she put her husband about leaves
the House expecting her husband would seek her but
instead of that he puts a padlock on the door she re-
turns next morning but what a blonk when she saw the
padlock, well what was she to do but to Seek advice
the attorney advises her to coax her husband to love her
again 0 Graceious what a site we saw next she sitting
on her knees crying for him to forgive her if you for-
give me she cries i will do anything to please you i will
clean your shoes and wash your acrons if you will only
forgive me you shall never have reason to put a padlock
on the door and i hope wifes who quarles with their hus-
bands will always think on the PADLOCK."—Gateshead
Observer.

THE RAILWAY ROBBERIES AT HUDDERSFIELD.—
In addition to the four prisoners, Wood, Whitely, Yates,
and Mellor, at present in custody, charged with being
connected with the extensive robberies at the Hudders-
field Station of the London and North-Western and
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways, nine other servants
(five porters and four draymen) employed in the waggon
department of the companies, have been taken into cus-
tody on suspicion of being implicated in the affair; and
also a person who resides in Golcar, named James
Bailey, long suspected, and beforetime prosecuted as a
receiver of stolen goods; and the police are still on the
alert after others. The quantity of goods missing is
very large, and it has been found that even since the first,
four prisoners were taken, two trusses that were deli-
vered to the London and North-Western Company for
transit on Friday week have disappeared in the same
mysterious manner. The loss to the two companies,
through this system of fraud, is proving of serious
amount, and some notion of the extent to which it has
been carried may be drawn from the fact that the Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire Company have had heavy claims
against them for compensation during the past two years,
amounting, during the past six months, to 5001. paid by
the Huddersfield agent alone.—Manchester Guardian.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of
Captain Edward Somerset, M.P. for the county of Mon-
mouth, and eldest son of the late General Lord Edward
Somerset, to Agatha, second daughter of William Miles,
Esq., of Leigh Court, near Bristol, and M.P. for the
county of Somerset, was celebrated yesterday morning at
the parish church of Abbots Leigh. The bridal party
left Leigh Court at half past ten o'clock in six carriages,
with grey horses, the bride being attended by ten
bridesmaids, principally members of the Miles and Beau-
fort families. Pis Grace the Duke of Beaufort was pre-
rent, and wore the collar and order of the Garter, and
among the nuptial party were also Lord Fitzroy Somer-
set, brother of the bridegroom, Sir William Codrington,
Bart., R.le. The service was read by the Rev. Robert
Miles, uncle of the bride, by whom the marriage cere-
mony was solemnized. The youthful couple afterwards
left Leigh Court for Trog House, Monmouthshire, one of
the seats of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, where they
purpose spending the honeymoon.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial- ,
office/ from the Governor of St. Helena.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Sept. 13.
(Before Mr. WITHAM and a Bench of Magistrates.)
Jeminsa Hewitt, aged 30, a married woman, was
indicted for having stolen a watch of the value of Si.,
the property of John Reveil, from his person.
Mr. O'Brien appeared for the prisoner.
The evidence of the prosecutor, which was given
through the medium of an interpreter, went to show
the following facts :—lle is the proprietor of an
" hotel," No. 1.5, Norton-street, Marylebone, and at
about twelve o'clock on the night of the 21st ult., as
he was walking up Regent-street in the company of
a friend of the name or Niscrerio, they were met by
the woman at the bar, who wasAocompanied by an-
other woman. The women suddeitv stopped them,
and before he was able b release himself from the
grasp of the prisoner, she had caught hold of the
watch guard of the prosecutor, and giving it a quick
jerk, it broke. The prosecutor at once put his hand
into his waistcoat•pocket,and of course discovered that
his watch was gone. Lie was then in the act of reaching
forward to catch the prisoner, but was frustrated in
the attempt by the other woman throwing herself
upon him, so as to afford the prisoner time to effect
her escape. 'Whilst he was endeavouring to free
himself' from this incumbrance the prisoner was seen
to hand the watch to two men who had been looking
on at the whole transaction. No sooner had this
been accomplished than the second woman relaxed her
hold, and the prosecutor then sprang forward, secured
the prisoner, and in due time gave her into the cus-
tody of the police. A search was then made for the
other woman, as well as for the two men, but neither
of these persons was to be found, nor had any tidings
of the watch been since obtained.

In the cross-examination of the prosecutor it was
elicited that the "hotel" of which he is the proprietor
is not a licensed house, and moreover that it is under
the management of a French woman, to whom he is
not married, and furthermore that the establishment
consisted of a number of young French women.
M. Noverio confirmed the statement which the
prosecutor had given as to the history of the transac-
tion. He also stated that he was himself a hairdresser,
carrying on his business at 14, Sherrard-street,
Golden- square.

Mr. O'IRIEN addressed the jury on behalf of the
prisoner, and contended that there had been a discre-
pancy between the statements of the prosecutor and
his witness Noverio as to the moment when the watch
had been taken ; for whilst the one said that he had
laid hold of the prisoner before he had missed his
watch, the other stated that it was not until the
watch was discovered to have been taken that the
prosecutor had seized the prisoner. Under these
circumstances the prisoner, he submitted, was fully
entitled to an acquittal.
Mr. WITHAM, in the course of his recapitulation of
the evidence, said that, without doubt, the prosecutor
had made a misrepresentation to the Court, when he
described himself as being an " hotel•keeper." What
proved to be the fact ? Why, that the house was
neither more nor less than a "common lodging
house"—even, indeed, if it were nothing worse—for
young French women. However, let the house ba
what it might, that was no justification for the daring
robbery which the prosecutor stated had been com-
mitted upon him. The jury, therefore, would direct
their attention to the whole of the testimony which
had been given, and then say whether it was or was
not sufficient to warrant their bringing in a verdict
of guilty.
The jury consulted for a short time, and then gave
a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. WITHAM then said, that he had no doubt what-
ever but that the prisoner was one of those impudent
and daring prostitutes who went about the streets at
a late hour at night with her bullies for the purpose
)f robbing any person who might happen to fall in her
way.

One of the jurymen here rose and said, that he
himself thoroughly understocd the French language,
and by that knowledge he was enabled to say that
the interpreter, who was a German, had faile.l to give
a faithful translation of all the different parts of the
prosecutor's statement. With respect to the moment
at which the watch had been missed by him, the pro-
secutor had distinctly stated that he had missed his
watch before he had seized the woman.

The interpreter denied that he had misrepresented
any single word of the evidence, and besought the
Learned Judge to protect him from such an un-
just attack as that which had been made upon his
veracity.
Mr. O'BRIEN, upan this, submitted that if the jury
had arrived at their verdict upon a wrong statement
of the evidence, it was quite clear, if the representa-
tions of the juryman were correct, that the verdict
was not a legal verdict, because it had been given
upon the version of the evidence which had just been
put forth by the juryman, and not upon the evidence
as rendered by, the interpreter, which, in truth, was
the only evidence upon which the jury ought to give
their verdict.

Mr. WITUAM observed, that under the peculiar cir-
cumstances of the case, he would allow the jury to
reconsider their verdict, if they thought such a course
would further the ends of justice.
The jury, however, did not think such a course
at all necessary. They were quite satisfied upon the
matter.

Mr. WITLIAM thereupon sentenced the prisoner to
nine months' imprisonment with hard labour.

INDECENT TUBLICATIONS.--THE QUEEN V. FREDERICK

RUNT.

In this case the defendant was indicted for the
public exposure and vending of indecent and obscene
publications for sale at his shop, No. 66, Castle-street,
Leicester- square.
Mr. BALLANTINE now said that he was instructed
on the part of the prosecution to state that the jury
and the Court would, he was happy to say, be spared
a detail of the disgusting and offensive facts of this
case. He was informed that it was the intention of
the defendant to plead "guilty," and thus there would
be no necessity for going into the circumstances. All
prosecutions of this character were of the utmost im-
portance in a moral point of consideration, but there
was a still higher and a more important object to he
gained, namely, the prevention of the offence. If,
then, the prevention of a recommission of the
offence only could be attained, every good end would
have been accomplished without entering into any
disgusting details, which, of course, would find their
way through the ordinary channels to the eye of the
public, were they gone into. In the present instance
he was in a position to say that the prosecution
would be amply satisfied by the defendant entering
into recognizances to the amount of 1001. to be of
good behaviour for the space of twelve months, and
to come up to receive the judgment of the Court
when called upon for that purpose.
Mr. PARRY, who appeared for the defendant, said
that the course which had been taken by his Learned
Friend was most forbearing. His client would, of
course, most gladly comply with what was required
of him.

The defendant then, on being arraigned, pleaded
Guilty, and entered into the necessary recognizances.
Mr. WITHAM directed that the whole of the books
and prints which had been seized by the police on the
defendant's premises should be burnt.