The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-22 00:00:00

THE SUN,

week had the effect of producing very large arrivals of that she could not be so indicted according to the evidence
country kided meats for these markets. The total qusa- produced, but if it should appear to the grand jury
tity rt ceived, since Monday last, has been little short of that she was au accessory before the fact, they might
10,000 carcases, chiefly of Sheep sad Pigs. With I know what course they could pursue. Now, upon this
Londot-slaughtercd meat we have been seasonably well subject a most important statute bad been passed--he
supplied. All kinds have met a very dull sale, and in alluded to the 11th and 12 of Victoria—by which it was
some instances prices have further declined, without enacted that an accessory before the fact to anv felony
efficting a clearance. From llemburgh 12 baskets of ought to be tried and convict.d, and punishe-d in all
moat have come to hand, arid about 1,800 carcases of respects as if he was the principal felon. It would,
foreign meat, killed in the metropolis, have been on offer. therefore, be for the grand jury to say whether there
At par stone by the Carcase. was any contrivance to commit this murder, and whether
s. d. to a. d. s. d. to S. C. it appeared that the fema'e was a party in that
deed. Another important question that might arise was
Be ef,'nferlor...... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior .. 2 8 3 0
middling 2 6 210 reiddling•• 3 2 3 4
prime large .. 3 0 3 2 prima.. •• 6 3 8 the declaration of either party to the prejudice of the
-
-- prime small .. 3 4 3 6 York, ..... 3 0 3 6 other. On such a subject he could only sey that the
210 3 6 -- small •••• •• •• 3 8 4 2 husband and wife could not be witness for each other,
neither could they be witness against each other, and
the grand jury must not, therefore, take any such decla-
ration into their consideration. If there was evidence
of having procured the committal of the felony, or the
committal of the felony by either or both parties, that
would be a sufficient ground for the grand jury finding a
true bill. It a party invited another to a given
spot in order that a murder might be committed, and
that murder was committed by other hands, that party
would be guilty of being an accessory before the fact,
and it would not be necessary to show that the party
was in sight while the deed was done; it would bo suffi •
cient that the party was near enough to lead in any
manner to the committal of the offence, such as keeping
watch or so on. The grand jury would be greatly re-
lieved in their duties if they got the witnesses
in this case to detail the occurrences that
had taken place in the order of time.
It was not his purpose to enter into the facts disclosed
in the case; the crime of murder was generally com-
mitted in secret, and everything generally connected
with it dependent on circumstantial evidence. The
grand jury would carefully weigh all the circumstances
that were presented before them; it would be important
for them to inquire whether the deceased being on the
spot was devised or purely accidental. It would
be important alto to consider what had been
done with his property;' how and by whom,
and under what circumstances the parties charged
left the place of their supposed crime, where they went
to, whether they both went together, or whether the
one went to one part, and the other to another; whether
they were going under their own or fictitious names,
and how they were ultimately discovered; it would in
short be for the grand jury to determine after the evi-
dence was brought before them whether the case did
not demand further and more full investigation. In
conclusion, he would say that the functions of a grand
jury had had seldom to be exercised in a more important
case; and, in the words of an eminent judge, he trusted
that they would conduct the inquiry with minds per-
fectly free from prejudice against the individuals charged;
that they would allow nothing they might have
heard or read against them, to mix itself up with and
colour their clear judgment; that, in short, they would
begin and close the inquiry with eyes and ears shut to
everything except the evidence before them. The
Learned Recorder then remitted the grad jury to the
discharge of their duties.
The Court then proceeded with the swearing in of the
petty jury.

13013.017G2E1 UOP IVIELUMET.
The quantity of 11.4 is en offer in our market is still
good, and of excellent quality. For the finest qualities
the demand is steady, at fully last week's quotations.
The inquiry for yearling and old Hops is trifling. Duty,
80,0001. About 120 baits of American and Belgian
Hops have come to hand in the past week. some of
them are off:ring duty paid. New Mid. and East Kent
Pockets, 165 s to 210 s; NewWeald of Kent ditto, 120 s
to 160 s ditto; New Sussex ditto, 115 s to 135); Fern-
hams, 210 s to 2315; Yearling Kents, 70s to 955; Year-
ling Sussex, 56s to 908; Old Hops, 20s to 80.3.

BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS.
Notwithstanding that the fresh arrivals of Potatoes,
coastwise, during the last week, have been confined to
about 1,000 tons, and that the receipts by land carriage
are very moderate fur the time of year, the supplies on
offer here are fully equal to the demand. The foreign
imports have comprised 106 tons from Calais; 130 tons,
235 bags, from Antwerp; 145 tons, 120 bags, 3 baskets,
from Rotterdam; 32 tens from Rouen; 98 tons from
Ostend; 60 tons from Dunkirk; 20 tons from Hamburgh ;
and 75 tons from Harlingen—forming a tott.l supply
from abroad of 761 tons, mostly in good condition, and
almost wholly free from disease. For most kinds of
good Potatoes the demand is tolerably steady, at full
prices, but all other qualities are a very slow sale.
Present rates as under:—
Per Ton. Per Ton.
York Regents ...... 70s to 85s Shaws 6os to 75s
Wisbeach ditto 6ss to 75s Scotch Reds 6ss to 75s
Red Kentish Kidn.. 66s to 80s Foreign sss to as

TALLOW.
Although the delivery of Tallow last week was toter
ably good, 2,849 casks, the demand, as most of the
chandlers are well in stock, has ruled heavy, and prices
have needed quite 6d per cwt. To-day P.Y.C. on the
spot is selling at 37s per cwt for prime, For forward
delivery very little is doing at 36s 6d per cwt. Town
Tallow 37s per cwt. net cash; Rough Fat, 2s Id per
81bs. The home-make continues large. Our St. Peters-
burgh letter states that only a limited business was pass-
ing there, at the previous decline.

1845. 1846. I 1847. 1848. 1849.
Stock this day • . • • • •
42115,468d0
5045,808d8 '
4245;2n 31,93145 s Od o 0 t
34';;408d8
Price of Y. C. .• ..
to 41s 3d to Os Od to 45s Od Os Od to Os Od
Delivery last week: • • 3,297 2,201 2,897 2,508 2,849
Ditto from Jane 1.••• 37,508 29,052 38,030 37,738 31,753
Arrivals last week • . 13,516 100 1,836 6,150 775
Ditto from June 1 ... 49,016 22,817 59,219 62,131 47,768
Price of Town 44s 3d 523 6d 48s Od 47s 6d 39s 60
STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERSHURGH.
1849. 1848. I 1847. 1846. I 1845.1
Tallow dispatched Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks. Casks.
from Cronstadt to
Sept. 26, O.S. .... 83,150 99,759 95,485 70,394 89,351
In ships loading and
lighters •••••••• .. 14,913 12,432 17,740 19,822 9,922
Total loaded eft .... 1' 3,063 112,191 113,225 90,216 p 9,273
Loaded afterwards.. . • 17,313 18,639 23,007 13,735
Total at the close of --
the navigation.... • • • . 129,504 131,864 113,223 113,008
London... .• .• 33,311 45,406 41,250 31,699 40,652
Liverpool .....• .. 15,871 12,103 12,167 9,722• 17,980
Bristol ....... • 3,255 4,231 3,329 2,745 2,429
Other Englishports 10,698 11,008 9,320 8,711 7,077
Ireland .. ... • • . • 4,267 4,174 6,615 6,060 5,426
Scotland
Germany • 4,171 6,472 6,043 5,073 4,074
• • • .•• .. 9,602 6,076 6,865 5,419 4,758
France • • • • • • • • • • 6,975 291 6,916 965 6,955
88,150 99,759 95,485 170,394 89,351

KARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY)
Ann Brady, a determined vagrant, was brought be-
fore Mr. Bingham, charged with begging in the public
streets.

Jones, an cffieer belonging to the D division, stated
that he was on duty in Oxford-street on Saturday even-
ing, when he saw the prisoner go up to several persons
and importune them for money, stating that she was in
a starving and destitute condition. Knowing her to be
a confirmed beggar, he took her into custody.
Horsford informed the magistrate that the prisoner
had been convicted no less than fifty times; in fact, nice
months out of the twelve she was in prison.
Mr. EINGUAM committed her for 10 days.
John Kitson, a well-known thief, was charged with
stealing from the shop of Mr. Wm. Needham, gunsmith,
26, Piccadilly, a gun-case and fittings, value 61.
Burnett, 20 E, deposed that about half•past six o'clock
on Saturday evening he saw the prisoner run out of com-
plainant's chop with the gun-case produced under his
arm. Suspecting the prisoner had stolen it, he went
into the shop, and, on making inquiry, found such to be
the fact.—The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

CRIMINAL COURT=(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT
The last session of this court during the present
Mayoralty commenced this morning in the Old Court,
before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen Gibbs,
Musgrove, Sidney, Finnis, and the new Sheriffs, Messrs.
Lawrence and Nichol, attended by the Under-Sheriff4,
Messrs. Wire and Miller.
The grand jury having been empannelled and sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to
them. He observed that the calendar contained a list
of 208 prisoners, and that that number would be pro-
bably augmented to some considerable extent, by various
commitments, before the termination of the session. The
calendar contained an enumeration of the various of-
fences for which prisoners were ordinarily committed
for trial to that court, and he lamented to say that it
presented several cases of the perpetration of those
higher crimes which required the most particular inves-
tigation. He was sorry to see that there were no
less than five persons charged with the crime
of wilful murder, under circumstances greatly
different one from the other, but still presenting
facts for the attention of the grand jury that would pro-
bably compel them in each instance to put the charge in
course of further inquiry before a petty jury. He
Would beg very shortly to call the attention of the grand
jury to the nature of the charges in addition to the five
cases of murder he had adverted to. There was one
charge of rape, where, in another count of the indict-
ment, the same party was charged with a criminal assault
on a child under eleven years of age. He would dismiss
that case by stating that there was no necessity for the
grand jury to have evidence of consent in such a case,
the law being that between ten and twelve no consent
could be given. There were three persons charged with
assisting another to rob, and there were no less than
nine cases of cutting and wounding with intent either
to murder or do grievous bodily harm; and he lamented
to see that one of those cases was a charge
of cutting and wounding a constable, to pre-
vent the lawful apprehension of an individual.
That was one of the cases that the law, as it at present
existed, constituted a felony of the most serious nature.
There were eight cases of forgery and uttering forged
instruments, and in one case a party was charged with
forging bank-notes. There were no less than three charges
of bigamy, 11 of burglary, and 9 cases of uttering counter-
feit coin. There were several cases of horse-stealing and
Manslaughter, and several cases also of most serious mis-
demeanour. There were a great number of cases of
larceny, 10 cases of house-breaking and larceny, 13
larcenies in dwelling-houses, 16 cases of larcenies from
the person, and 41 cases of larceny of other descrip-
tions. Now, having put the grand jury in possession of
the state of the calendar generally, it would be his duty
to Call their attention more in detail to some of the
more prominent charges it contained. He alluded
° the charges of manslaughter and murder.
There Th
were two charges of murder; one against a father
for murdering his child by drowning, and another
against a man for murdering his wife and child. And
there was also another case, where death was caused by
brutal violence—caused by the party charged kicking a
female with whom he cohabited; and there was a case
4160 in which it was in vain for him to say the attention of
me grand jury had not been called by some means or
°Ther—where two persons, man and wife, were charged
With the crime of murder. With respect to the case
ihere death occurred from personal violence—from
`..king—if the jury found there was great bru-
tint)? and severity on the part of the individual,
and no disposition of relenting, that would be a case, in
his opinion, in which the grand jury would be justified
tin putting the case into a state of further inquiry before
_he petty jury as a charge of murder, and it would be
tor the grand jury carefully to inquire whether mischief
was not intended. The two cases he would next allude
to were in one instance where a father was charged with
the murder of his own offspring, and in the other where
the father was charged with murdering his child and
elf o his wife. Perhaps the grand jury, in their kindly
feeling, might, in looking to these cases, be inclined to
think that the parties committing the offence were
Under some delusions; but he mentioned this by way of
caution, and not in order that it might sway the grand
jury either one way or the other. The law had made
certain provisions with respect to presumed insanity;
the grand jury had nothing to do with insanity, because
it was for a jury expressly charged to determine that
point. If it appeared that the act of the party was such
that murder was intended, the grand jury were bound
to put the case, in a further stage of inquiry, before a
Petty jury. It now remained for him to
refer to the case where a man and his
Wife were charged with the heinous crime
0 murder, but before he proceeded to consider
that case it would perhaps be better that he should call
the attention of the grand jury shortly to a case of man-
ajanghter of which he had only just received the deposi-
14°fis, in which the charge was made against the brother
Of the deceased, who, by the application of the homceo-
Pathic syatem in a case of cholera, it was charged, had
Caused his death. Now, in a case like this, if there was
evidence of a criminal disregard of human life on the
part of an individual who presumed to act as a medical
man, there could be no doubt that a charge of man-
a'aughter might be maintained, or at least brought
against him; but if a man was a regular practitioner, and
with the bestarty
intent, and with the hope of doing the
tettth •
good, had administered medicines that ended in
, in such a case the charge of manslaughter could
11(4 be maintained. Having made these observations, he
came to the case to which he desired to call the par-
i-i_er4.lar attention of the grand jury; he alluded to that
~_"los case in which two persons were charged with
,11iul murder, the parties charged standing in the rela-
lirt°ll to each other of husband and wife. He would not
°n
writtenbl the
grand jury with constant refer-
-13 to what the early text writers had
on this subject, as he had endeavoured to collect
well as he could, what was the result of the law upon
i°24 subject,and as it touched this question in particular.
4; gener, it seemed that the wife might be indited for
i 01137, even with her husband, according to thec autho-
Y of Lord Hale; but if it appeared on an indictment,
v:c,ept for murder, that the husband was present, the
ruderll!h to be acquitted, on the presumption of acting
etraatthtehe control and coercion of her husband. In the
theof murder it was different. The authorities stated
exception did not exist in cases of murder, or
% €'ll.tc'e, or manslaughter, or assault and battery. Where
la 'wife committed an act, though in the presence of her
t,°•eb,and, she might be convicted of it, and the husband
Al_gnt also be convicted as an accessory before the fact.
-6'4 a proof of that in the State Trials, the Earl and
Orless of Somerset were convicted of the murder of
r Thames Overbury. It was also laid down in
nwkin's Pleas of the Crown, that where a wife had
'e.,4 her husband to commit murder she might be con-
ne tad
t as an accessory before the fact. He had gone
° this case thus far because it might appear to the grand
'may that the wife was au accessory after the fact, and

HEALTH OF HER MAJESTY THE
QUEEN DOWAGER.
STANMORE, MONDAY, 11 A.M.
Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, we regret to
learn, continues in a very critical state, surrounded
by the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and the Princes
Edward and Hermann, and the Princesses. The Earl
Howe, Sir David Davies, Sir Horace Seymour, and
Lady Clinton (Lady in Waiting), are among the
members of Queen Adelaide's household staying
at Bentley Priory.
The following bulletin was issued at ten o clock this
(Monday) morning, from which it will be perceived
there is no improvement in the distressing condition
of the illustrious invalid :
"Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has bad a bad
night, and is not quite so well this morning."
The inquiries at her Majesty's temporary residence,
from the neighbouring nobility, clergy, and gentry
are exceedingly numerous, and much public anxiety
exists as regards that estimable lady's illness.