The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-21 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. WITITAM, and a Bench of Magistrates.)
Yesterday, William Miller, 59, one of those fellows
who hang about the County Ceurts, yelling thern.Aves
" agents," was indicted for obtaining 9s. from Elizabeth
Mills, under false pretences.
The proseeutrix was a poor old woman, who earned a
precarious subsistence as a sempstress. Some short time
since she was anxious to sue a person named Smith, who
was indebted to her for money lent, and the prisoner
was introduced to her as an " agent" of the Whitechapel
County Court, who would get an execution for her
against Smith. The prisoner told her that he had been
an officer of the old Court of Requests, in Osborne-
street, for twenty years. The proAcuirix, believing
this statement, at once authorised him to proceed against
Smith, and gave him 3s. to take out the summons. He
subsequently told her that he must pay 4e. more for the
hearing. To pro Lure this sum she was obliged to pawn
her bedding, and shortly after he asked her for ss. to
takeiout an execution against Smith, telling her that
she would receive the fed amount due to her after the
execution had issued, and without having any occasion
to attend the court at all. The prosecutrix was again
obliged te pledge the remaining portion of her bedding
to obtain the required sum; hut instead of receiving
the ;amount due to her, she discovtred that, though
the summons had been taken out against Smith, the
cause had been abandoned. There had been no hear-
ing, and, as a matter of course, no execution could be
obtained.

The clerk to the County Court proved that there were
no fees paid for hearing or execution, and that nothing
further than taking out the summons had been done.
The jury found ,he prisoner Guilty.
Mr. WITHAM said that it was a most heartless fraud.
It was intol-rable that such persons as the prisoner
should be allowed to hang about these county courts, and
extort money from those poor persons who were
obliged to resort to them. The sentence was that he
be imprisoned and kept to bard labour for the term of
six months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Lieutenant Lean, the City agent of the Emigration
Commissioners, attended for the purpose of bringing a
charge, under the sth and 6,h Vic., cap. 107, called
"An Act for regulating the Carri.go of Passengers in
Merchant Vessels," against Mr. Sutton, a licensed emi-
grati3n broker, who voluntorily attended to answer the
matter of complaint. Alderman Wilson presided.
Lieutenant Lean said the subject was one of great
importance to persons who intended to emigrate. Two
men and a woman had applied to him, stating that they
had pa id mosey to Mr. Sutton for their passage to New
York, per the Rose, emigrant vessel. It appeared from
their representations, that the emigration broker had
violated the Act in two of its important clauses in
dealing with them. In the first place they had not
given them receipts for the money in the form contained
in the schedule, and, in the second, he had received the
money without having received a written authority to
act as agent for the party on whose behalf the contract
for such passage was purported to be made. These
omissions were infringements upon the 19th and 21st
sections of the Act, and subjected the defendant to two
penalties in each case of 101. a head, the Act having
been expressly made for the protection of the passenger
from fraud or the consequences of false pretence. It
happened that the emigration ship turned out, upon
examination, to be wholly unfit for the voyage, and she
was accordingly ordered into dry dock for repairs, and
when she would be fit to und, rtake the voyage was
quite a matter of conjecture. The defendant, although
infoimed of the illegality of the proceedings, had, never-
theless, refused to return the money to the com-
plainants, who seriously felt the grievance, and appealed
to the Commissioners for assistance in so disagreeable
an emergency._

Alderuran-WILsoN having examined the receipts given
by the defendant for the amount of the passage-money,
which receipts were of the ordinary kind, and by eo
means such as were required by the Act of Parliament,
and. having been informed that the defendant had no
written authority from the owner of the vessel to con-
tract for the passage of the complainants, asked what
answer Mr. Sutton was prepared with?
The defendant said he did not mean to deny anything
which he had done. He certainly had received the
money, and given the receipts produced, and he had no
written authority from the owner of the ship to act as
agent; but he con:idered himself perfectly justified in
the course he had pursued, and was whelly at a loss to
find anything in the Bill at all tending to show any
obligation upon his part to return the money.
Alderman WILSON—How can you be justified in
acting in direct violation of the Emigration Act?
Mr. Sutton—My licence is my authority. I contend
that I have carried out the Act of Parliament, by en-
tering into a contract as agent for the complainants,
and that the section you have quoted has no reference to
any person but the passenger.
Alderman WILSON—Your construction of the Act of
Parliament is so palpably erroneous, as to amount to an
imputation of actual stupidity. I advise you to go to
some one capable of advising you.
Mr. Sutton—l look upon the Act in quite a different
light, and I am determined to appeal against your deci-
sion. lam anxious to have the point settled, and have
no 'idea of shirking the resi,onsibiii.y. To show that
I had no intention of doing wrong, when the Rose was
found incapable of going the voyage, I entered into con-
tracts tor ane pf.s..ge of the complainants in the Pioneer.
Alderman Wit-sou—Have you got the written autho•
rity of the owner to act as agent in that instance? Mr.
Sutton—No.

Alderman Wlmos—Then you aro subject to double
penalties.

Mr. Sutton—l am willing to take the responsibility in
all the cases.

Lieutenant Lean said he had in vain endeavoured to
prevail upon the defendant to come to arrangements, to
prevent the inconvenience which must result to the com-
plainants from the delay.
Alderman WiLsox— I perceive that the case is out of
my jurisdiction, but I hope the defendant will see the
necessity of returning the passage-money to these poor
people, and not render an application to the magistrates
of the Thames Police necessary.
Mr. Sutton—l don't mean any offence, but I assure
you, Sir, that I expect, upon my return home, to find
some persons waiting to be supit lied with a passage to
New York, and it is my determination to act for them
just as I have acted for these people.
Alderman WILSON—In nope Lieutenant Lean will at
once apply to the Thames police magistrates, who know
well how to deal with such a case, and that he will not
forget to mention the defendant's expressed determina-
tion to repeat the offence of which he certainly has been
guilty in directly violating the Act. The Act was made
tor protection against such conduct as that upon which
I have animadverted, and the case most strongly proves
how necessary it is to be stringent upon agents. The
defendant is liable to penalties to the amount of 801., and
it I had authority he should feel the consequence of the
threat to continue in an illegal course.
Lieutenant Lean said he certainly would act upon the
Alderman's suggestion.

GUILDHALL.
Mr. Robert William Rickard, of Harpur-street, Red
Lion-square, surgeon, was brought up before Aldermen
Gibbs and Carden, for final examination, on the charge
of uttering two forged receipts for rent.
Mr. Humphreys attended to prosecute; and Mr. D.
W. Wire, of the firm of Wire and Child, defended the
prisoner.
The first witness called was

Mr. Hugh Hughes, of No. 6, Portland-place, Clap-
ham-road, who said I am one of the deacons of the
Welsh chapel; I took the receipt for the Lady-day
quarter to the landlord—he said it was a forgery. I
saw it taken off the file which is kept in an iron chest in
the cupboard in the Welsh chapel-house. There are
three persons who keep the keys of the cupboard, but
Mr. Edwards had the one belonging to the chest, and I
saw him open it a few nights ago. This is the receipt
which was taken off the file, and I marked it.

,
Mr. Wire—How do you know it. Mr, Hughes—l
am satisfied about it, as I had it in my possession from
Monday evening to the Friday evening, when I
marked it.

Mr. Wire—The prisoner was connected with your
chapel for some time. Mr. Hughes—He was.
Mr. Wire—Were there any disputes between him and
some other members? Mr. Hughes—There has been a
lawsuit between him and Mr. Davis, one of the deacons,
but it has no connexion with this transaction.

Mr. Morgan Jones, of 2, Union•place, Pimlico, slate-
merchant, said I am connected with the chapel in Jewin-
crescent. I was with Hughes when he went to Mr. Lilly.
I was in the room when Mr. Hughes got the receipt. It
was at a meeting of the elders. This is the receipt of
the Lady-day quarter. When we returned I put this
mark on it.

Mr. Alderman GIBBS asked Mr. Wire what defence
he had to make.

Mr. Wire—There is no case against Mr. Rickard. I
take it that there ought to be evidence to show that be
uttered the documents, knowing them to be forgeries, for
the purposes of fraud. There is an utter absence of evi-
dence to prove that offence, or that be even knew them
to be such.

Alderman Ginus—But they are vouchers which turn
out to be forgeries.

Mr. Wire—But the first document is disposed of, as
he paid the Christmas rent.
Mr. Humphreys—l must disabuse Mr. Wire's mind
on that point, and inform him that they were both for,
genies.

Alderman GIBBS —Mr. Lilly, who paid you the two
last quarters' rent?

_
Mr. Lilly—Mr. Rickard paid the last, and his wife
the previous one. All the receipts before that time,
which are now produced, are in my handwriting.
Alderman GIBBS—Upon the evidence before me I
shall commit the prisoner for trial.
Mr. Wire—Then it is useless to address you; but
you have the discretionary power of admitting my client
to bail, which I hope you will do, as at the teal circum•
stances will come out that will throw a very diffeient
light on the whole transaction.
Alderman GIBBS —I don't feel inclined to do so.
Mr. Wire—lle is is professional man, and it will be
his ruin.
Alderman Gnus said, be was very unwilling to add
to the severity of the c ise, but he knew too well what
impression his admitting him to bail would have on the
minds of a jury, namely, that the magistrate had a doubt
in the case, and theretoro he must decline acceding to
Mr. Wire's application.
The prisoner was then conveyed to Newgs,te.
LAMBETH.

ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.—A young woman,
with c n infant in her arms, nam,d Louisa Lloyd, was
placed at the bar charged with stealing a purse contain-
ing ten sovereigns from the person of Mr. W. Butcher,
residing at Peckham.
Tire complainant etated that the previous night he
was passing along the Kent-road, when he met
the prisoner, and tiecoa:panied her into Surrey-squire.

He had not been there more than five minutes before he
missed his purse containing the money, which wss in his
left hand pocket safe a f4.w minuses bet,re. The pri-
s,ner, upon being taxed with the robbery, ran away,
and while so doing fell down and cut the left side of her
face.

Police-constable M 206, hearing the cries of " Stop
thief," caught the prisoner, and afterwards found the
money upon the spot where ho stopped her,
The prisoner, who had nothing to say in her defence,
was committed for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Joseph Johnson Colverd, alias Smith, and William Hall
Brown, alias Clarke, alias 11114 who stood charged with
having obiained goods by means of fraudulent repre-
sentations, to the amount of 1561. from Ur, Henry
Dymond, wholesale gutra percha boot and shoe manu-
facturer, in Regent-street, City-road; and also with hav-
ing uttered two forged bills of exchange, for 21/. 7s. and
221. Ss., in part payment of the same, were placed at the
bar, before Mr. Arnold, for further examination.
In consequence of the publicity which had been given
to the fact of their apprehension, a large number of
tradesmen and other persons, who had had dealings with
the prisoners, ware in attendance to pre'er charges
aga,:►st them.

-Further evidence having been given,
Sergcant lluboib said that, since the last examination
he had received a letter from Mr. Hodge, deputy con-
stable of Wolverhampton, ,pprising him that he held a
warrant for the apprehension of the prisoner Brown, Rho
had absconded from that place about two years since,
after defrauding tradtsrneu to the extent of nearly 3001.;
and he was also in communication with various other
firms in town who had promised to attend on a future
d and substantiate other charges, ernbraciffg both fraud
and forgery, against both prisoner 3.
The prisoners, who were advised by Mr. Vann and
another solicitor who appeared on their behalf to reserve
their defence, were accordingly remanded for a week.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JUNE 19.-- Since this
day se'nnight the arrivals of fat cattle from Edinburgh and the
counties on the north-east coast of L;cotland, into this town by
rail and sea, have been about 250 head. Also a good season-
able supply from the border counties, both of which are of a
very superior quality ; and a large supply of sheep and lambs
for the time of year. The former is fully an average in point
of quality, while the latter is only very indifferent. The supply
of beef will comprise about 560 head of beasts, there being a
good attendance of both local and distant buyers, together with
the cool state of the weather, all breeds are in active request,
and a clearance will be effected. The supply of sheep and
lambs is 6,000. The mutton trade is tolerably active at former
rates, yet a considerable quantity remains on hand, while lambs
are excessively heavy, at a decline from id to Id per lb from
last week. Prices—Beasts, prime Scots, 6s 3d to Gs 63;
middling, Gs; good steers, 6s; middling 5s 6d to 5s 9d ;
inferior beasts, 5s per stone of 141bs Sheep, 5d to bid;
lambs, 6d to bid per lb sinking the offal.
EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JUNE 19.--There were
in the market to-day 74 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801b$
imperial, whereof 63 sold thus: —0 at 1110 s Od, 25 at 119 s 6d,
21 at 1/ 9s Od, 6atl/ 8s 6d, 11 at I/ 8s Od, oat 1/ 7s Od.
Average price of the whole, 11 8s lld 8-12ths. 8 sacks flour,
whereof 2 sold at 31s, 0 at 30s, 3 at 295, and 3at 28s. 6 sacks
barleymeal, none sold. 1 sack peasemeal, which was not sold.
24 sacks pot-barley, whereof 15 sold thus: —1 at 118 s Od, 2 at
11 5s Od, latl/ 4s 6d, 3atli 3s Od, Batl/ is Od. 1 sack
brosemeal, which sold at 275.

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EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, .TUNE 19.
Supplies of all kinds moderate. Oat straw, from 6s Od to
7s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, 5s 6.1 to
7s Od ; barley ditto, 5s Od to 7s Od. Hay from 7d to 9d per
stone.

BELFAST, JUNE 18.—The supplies of grain and oatmeal
at this day's market are moderate, and prices remain
unchanged. Indian corn is in good request, at prices nomi-
nally as on Friday. Wheat, 9s 04 to 10s 6d ; oats, 6s 9d
to 7s 64 ; oatmeal, 12s Od to 12s 10d ; yellow corn,
81 19s Od to 8/ 15s Od; white, 8/ 12s 6d to 8/ 15s Od.
Oatmeal is also a small supply, and yet prices are 3d lovver•
turn lower, and a dull sale at 7d to lid per lb. Indian
corn a slow sale to-day, at a small abatement in value.
Potatoes, per stone, 19d to Is; ditto, per cwt, 5s 44 to 6s Od.
Fruit—Apples, per dozen, 64 to 9d; pears, per ditto, Od to 04;
grapes, per lb., 8d to 10d ; lemons, per dozen, Os 94 to Os 10d;
nuts, per quart, 6d to d; wall-nuts, per hundred, is to Is 3d;
chest nuts, per ditto, is Od to Os ; cocoa nuts, 6d to 8d each;
American apples, 10d to ls Od per dozen ; mixed pickles, 10d to
Is. Butchers' Meat—beef, per lb, 4d to 74; mutton, 5d to 7d;
veal, 64 to 7d ; lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od per quarter.
Fish—Trout, Os 64 per lb ; brett, 3s 04 to 4s Od;
soles, Is to 2s Od per pair. Poultry—Fowls, 2s 6d to 33 a'
pair ; chickens, is 6d to 2s per pair; ducks, Os to 2s 6d Per
pair ; turkeys, Os to Os each ; geese, Os Od to Os Od ; egg's
per doz, 5d to 64. Hay, is 2d to 2s Od; straw, oat, 9d to Is 24 ;
ditto, wheat, 8d to Is Od per cwt.
BANBItIDGE, JUNE 18.—Oatmeal, from 12s Od to 12s 64
per cwt ; Indian meal, 9s 6d to 9s 94 per (cwt ; flour, first, Per
1121bs, 15s 6d ; second, 14s Od ; thirst, 12s .9cl ; fourth, 93 "ull
bran, 6804 ; wheatmeal, 125 6d to 14s Od ; wheat, from 03"
to Ils Od per cwt of 112 lbs ; oats, from 7s 4d to 7s 6d
per cwt of 112 lbs; barley, 7s 6d to 8s Od per cwt;
best butter, firkin, at the scale, 6i4 per lb ; roll, Od
to 6'4,1 per lb; beef, 3d to 5d ; mutton, 4d to 6d; potatoes,
for seed, Os Od to Os Od per cwt ; for table, from 6s Od to
Os Od per cwt ; hens, 104 to Is Od each ; chickens, 10d
to Is 2d per pair; ducks, is 10d to 2s 4d ; turkeys, 2s 64 to
3s Od each ; geese, 2s 4d to 2s 9d ; eggs, hen, 5d to Od per
dozen ; duck, Od to 6d per dozen ; turkey, 10d to Os per dozen;
goose, Os Od to Is 6d ; hay, upland, from is 8d to 2s per.
_Flit;
ditto, lowland, from Os Od to Is 4d; straw, from 04 to I_od
turnips, Od to is 8d ; pork, none at market this day ;
lamb, from Od to 74 per lb. Weight of bread at Hamilton
Moore's bakery, 4lbs fur 50. Old grain whiskey, at Mr.
Robert Bell's, 6s 3d per gallon, duty paid.
BALLYMENA, JUNE 16.—Oats, 7s Od to 8s Od ; oatmeal,
12s Od to 12s 9d per cwt ; butter, 7d ; beef, 3d to 6d per lb.!
ad to od ; flour, first, per cwt, 18s Od ; second, 17s Cas
third, 15$ Od ; inferior third, 13$ Od ; fourth, lOs Od ; bran,
Os Od to 6s 8d ; Indian meal, white, per cwt, 9s 6d to lOs
yellow, 9s 6d to lOs Od; potatoes, 3s Od to 6s 04 per cwt; hay,
is 3d to 2s 04 per cwt; American flour, 30s pr barrel; tallow,
4s 04 to 5s 44 per stone; flax, 4s to 63 6d ; straw, 84 to 1I d
hie's, 2s 6d to 6s 9d each ; pork, 35s Od to 41s Od per cwt;
turnips, 8d to is per ditto; carrots, Os to is per ditto ; beans,
5s 9d to 6s 64 ; grey peas, 6s 6d to 7s 6d.

COAL MAUI,. L
Ord's Redheugh
Tanfield Moor ....
Wylam 13s 6d
Wall's End, &c.
Gosforth .....
Eden Main 154 3d
Bell
Hetton
Morrison l4s 0
Hartlepool l7s Oa
Lieugh Hall
Kelloe lss 9d

YESTERnAY.
South Hartlepool lss 3d
Adelaide Tees lss 9d
Cowndon Tees 143 9d
I-Ziehardson's Tees l4s Od
Seymour Tees
South Durham l4s 9d
fees
Derwentwaterllartley 14s 3d
Nixon's Merthyr 20s Od
Ditto. Ct.rditY 203 Od
Ships at market, 38.

MILTON A TRUE HERO.--Mlld Milton approaches
nearly to my conception of a true hero. What a picture
have we of that sublime old man, as—sick, poor, blind,
and abandoned of his friends—he still held fast his heroic
integrity; rebuking with his unbending republicanism the
treachery. cowardice, and servility of his old associates I
Ho had outlived the hopes and beatific visions of his
youth ; he had seen the loud mouthed advocates
of liberty throwing down a nation's freedom at the foot
of the shameless, debauched, and perjured Charles the
Second—crouching to the harlot-thronged court of the
tyrant, and forswearing at once their religion nue
their republicanism. The executioner's axe had been
busy among his friends. Vane and Hampden slept 111
their bloody graves, Cromwell's ashes had been dragged
from their resaug-place ; for, even in death, the
effeminate monarch hated and feared the conqueror of
Naseby and Marston-moor. He was left alone in age,
and penury, and blindness, oppressed with the knowledge
that all which his free soul abhorred had returned upon
his beloved country. Yet the spirit of the stern old re-
publican remained to the last unbroken, realising the
truth of the language of his own Samson Agonistes
"Patience is the exercise
Of saints, the trial of their fortitude,
Making them each their own deliverer,
And victor over all
That tyranny or fortune can iaict."
True, the overwhelming curse had gone over his
country. Harlotry and atheism sate in the high
places, and the curses of wantons and the jests of buf-
foons regulated the measures of a Government which,
had just ability enough to deceive, just religion enough
to persecute. But while Milton mourned over this
disastrous change, no self-reproach mingled with his
sorrow. To the last he had striven against the or
pressor, and when confined to his narrow alley, a pri-
soner in his own mean dwelling, like another Prome-
theus on his rock, he still turned upon him an eye of
uniubdu9d defiance.—People's Journal.
RUTLAND TESTIMONIAL—A meeting was held at
Leicester, on Saturday, for the purpose of agreeing to an
address to be presented to the Duke of Rutland, on
attaining the fiftieth year of his lieutenancy of Leices-
tershire; and for the purpose of deciding on the apPr°:
priaiion of upwards of 1,4001., which had been subscribed
fr‘r a " Rutland Testimonial." A congratulatory ad-
dress having been• agreed to, it was further resolved—
" That a bronze statue of the Duke of Rutland, 012 a
granite pedestal, be erected in the market-place, 1e1oes•
ter, provided a site can be procured for the same.
It happens in conversation as in different games.
One person seems to excel, till another does better, 511
we then think no more of the first. —Eliza Cook s
Journal.