The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-09 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, MAT 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share Market was *lather firmer to-day,
parties having somewhat recovered from their recent want of con-
fidence. The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, Thirds, 11 dis. —North
British, Halves, 534—Taff Vale, 130—Ditto, Quarters, 253¢.
LIVERPOOL, MAy 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE..—The market was very dull to-day, and
prices unchanged. The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire (late C. and B.), guaranteed 6 per cent. till 1850,1514 —East
Anglian, 151. Shares, 2—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 42 —Lancashire
and Yorkshire, Halves (No. 4), 4% p.—London and North-Western,
128—Ditto, New Quarters, 34 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire (Sheffield and Lincoln), 141,4 c. dis.—Midland, 66—Ditto,
Halves, 121. 6s. 3d. dis.—North Union (B), 152—South-Eastern 'and
Dover (No. 4), 13s. 9d. c.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick G. N. E.
Purchase, 6 per cent. till 1850, 3% dis.
MANCHESTER, MAT 8.
STOCK EXcIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follows:
Sheffield (No. 1),;7 4 dis.—Leeds, Fifths, 4% dis.—North Stafford-
shire, 5 7-16 dis.—Leeds, 32/ Shares, 9 dis.—West Riding Unfelt, 5%
dis.—Dover (No. 4),:6 11-16.

BIRMINGHAM, MAY S.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following aro to-day's transactions:—
Coventry and Nuneaton, 6s. 3d. p.—Eastern Counties, 7 %—Shrews-
bury and Birmingham (A), 5y4 dis.—York and North Midland,
Preference, guaranteed 6 per cent, till 1850, 33,4 dis.
YORK, MAT 7.

STOCK EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as fol-
lows :—Great Northern, 1N n—Ysrk, Newcastle, and Berwick
(Newcastle Extension), 14—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 414,
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MAT 8.
STOCK EXCIIANCE.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to-
day has been as follows :—llartlepool Dock and Railway, 135—New-
castle and Carlisle, 100—North British, Preference, 21s. 6d.—York,
Newcastle, and Berwick 19%.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
William Edwin Bazley, 29, a post-office letter carrier,
pleaded guilty to two indictments, charging him with
stealing and embezzling two letters, one of them contain-
ing money, and the other a book, the property of the
Postmaster- General.
Sentence was deferred.

Lydia Dixon, a well-dressed woman, aged 30, was ar-
raigned upon several indictments, charging her with
stealing silk, satin, and other articles of a similar de-
scription, from the shops of different silkmercers and
haberdashers, at Richmond and Hammersmith.

Mr. Prendergast defended the prisoner.
The first case that was taken, was a charge of stealing
20 yards of silk and a quantity of mousseline de laine,
the property of Mr. Steal, a linendraper, at Richmond.
A police-constable, named Woods, produced the pro-
perty, which he found, with a large quantity of other
valuable articles, in a room at a beer-shop in the Lower-
road, Richmond, occupied by the prisoner. All the
goods had the private shop-mark upon them; but the
prosecutor would not take upon himself to swear posi-
tively that they had never been sold.
The RECORDER observed, that in the absence of such
evidence, he thought the jury would hardly feel them-
selves warranted in coming to the conclusion that the
articles had been stolen.
The jury expressed the same opinion, and returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.
The prisoner was then charged, upon another indict-
ment, with stealing a quantity of huckaback, the property
of Mr. Bryant, another linendraper at Richmond.
It appeared in this case, that Woods, the policeman,
was on duty near the prosecutor's shop, when he ob-
served the prisoner deliberately take up a roll of hucka-
back, and place it under her shawl and walk off with it.
He stopped her, and she then said that she was only
going to take the article into the shop to ascertain the
price; and when he attempted to take her into custody,
she made a violent resistance. She afterwards refused
to give her name or residence; but the constable suc-
ceeded in discovering that she lodged at the beer-shop
referred to in the former case. It also appeared that at
the time the prisoner was taken into custody, she had a
large apron, or rather pocket, tied in front of her, which
appeared evidently intended as a most convenient recep-
tacle for any property that its wearer might lay hold of.
Mr. PRENDERGAST, in his address to the jury on be-
half of the prisoner, said he was instructed that she was
a person of respectability and incapable of committing
the offence of felony, and he believed he should be able
to show them, b
testimony of highly respectable
witnesses, that, in consequence of a brain fever, the
mind of the prisoner was affected, and that she was in
such a state as not to render her responsible for her te
actions.
she said that the prisoner had been living with her, at
a
Hammersmith, for 11 years, and she had known her from
provided
Mrs. Jackson was then examined for the defence, and
her infancy. Witness all necessaries for her,