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

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE—IIEDNESDAY
The r.c( los of Ens,li.!•ll Wheat up.to our carket this
week have best very moderate, yet the show of samphs,
offering this morning was quite (qua' to the wants or
the millets. All kinds of Wheat of home produce moved
off FA. wly at barely Monday's quotations. The imports
of foreign Wheat were confined to 1,610 qu:rters. Fine
parcels so'd at previous rates, but the middling and in-
terior kinds had a downward tendency. With English
Barley we were very scantily supplied, hut the quantity
of foreign was extensive. The Barley trade ruled
heavy, but we have no decline to notice in
the quotations. So little business was pvsiug,
in Malt that prices were almost n, mingh
The best samples of Oats were in moderate request, at
full currencies. Damp qualities were lower to purchate•
Beans, Pcas, Indian Corn, and Flour commanded very
little attention.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat.

Barley.

Malt. i Flour.

i Oats.
__.__

Qrs. Qrs.
English ...• • , 870 9J
t,coteh.... •• • • !
Irish .... •••• i il :00
Foreign ......i 1,610 2,840 2,60

Qrs• Qrs.
I 463 760

acks.
750

ti. xvi.a.mr.46...tr.r.
The dcmand fur Lew hops, the supply of IN hich is
good, Las become tolerably steady, at full pric, s. In
yearlin2. and old parcels scarcely any business is doing.
Duty 90,060/. New Hops—Sussex prckets, 61 6s 10
71; `Wald of Kent ditto, 71 to 81; Mid and East Kjit
ditto 61 10s to 11/ per cwt.

iVEITECBAPIX,
Our rcarket was heavy to day, at drooping prices.
Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 41; Mutton,
Veal, 3a Od to 3s 61; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 2d Per
Sibs. by the carcase. 2s 10d to 38 10d1

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT JUDGE.)
George Nicholls end Margaret James, described as
servants out of place, were indicted. for stealicg a box
and contents, of the value of 20/., the property of the
Great 'Western Railway Company.
Mr. CLARKSON conducted the prosecution, and stated
that on the 14 of August last the prisoners, or at least
one of them, came by the railway from Brinscorcbe, in
Gloucestershire to the Paddington station, and hi -u
amongst the luggage a box covered with a linen wrapper'
corded, and having attached to it a 'urge card with the
direction " 'Mrs. James, Passenger," the usual red
ticket of the company, with a capital "J'''
and the words "Brinecombe to Paddington" printed
on it, was pasted un the wrapper. There was 1,9
the same train a passenger of the name of James, who
was in the employment of the company, and was nevem'
pilled in that trip, from Gloucester to Paddington, by
his wife and family. Ile had also, in the luggage, a box
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 prisoners
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 the box belonging to Mr. James, leaving in
its place her own much smaller one. Nicholls carried
it away for her. In a wet k 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 6ho could have her own. Be said
he would tell her se,' and would return re"
sonally, but nothing more was seen of him,
until about a fortnight ago, w ben Collard, the chief
police in-pector of the Great Western Railway, met
him in Hyde-park-square. Mrs. James was soon after-
wards ma by Cellsrd, on the way to the lodgings eccu-
pi, d by the prisoners, who_ lived together, and nearly the,
whole of the contents of the box, which consisted
clething and ornaments, were found there, and identified
by Mr. and Mrs. denies, the owners
The ASSISTANT JUDGE observed that it had been laid
down by the judges, in recent decisions, that if a ID",
found a purse containing 1,000 guineas in the public res",
and apple d every shilling of it to his own use, he could
not be held guilty of felony; and, in cases analogous to
the one before the Court, that if a person found tor
thing. and afterwards appropriated it to his own use,
well knowing it to belong to another, it could
not be deemed a felonious takin as it wig)"
be that he only took it up at first to examine
it, and see what it was. In the present case the ft male
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 ch scription; 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 alloeed 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.