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THE SUN,

Nol le 1 riend the Member for Lynn. It was quite a mistake
to suppose that his Noble Friend was et all irritated in bring-
, ing forward his motion. That, however, was not the point
1 before the House. It might be very well for the Hon. Member
. to talk to the House, and tell them that he knew the difference
s between addressing a vulgar and uneducated assembly and one
like that which he was then addressing, and skip over all the
i details of his arguments. The question was were opinions to
6 go forth to the world upon a subject which at present interested
the public mind to a very great extent, and was public enter-
prise to be affected by mere declamation in that House ? The
Hon. Gentleman had said that a large expenditure in railways
did not necessarily benefit the revenue.
Mr. GOULBURN—No, no.
Mr. DISRAELI—What, then, was the course of argument
pursued by the Hon. Gentleman ? His Noble Friend (Lord G.
' Bentinek) and those who acted with him, had c,:rtainly been
endeavouring to impress upon the country the idea that an ex-
penditure of money in tlyo construction of railways was a
benefit to the country; if the Hon. Gentleman was not at-
tempting to make out the converse of that proposition, a great
portion of the time occupied in the debate could have been
spared, and he might, at least, have been induced to
occupy neutral ground. He certainly understood the
Honourable Member to say, that it was a mistake
to suppose that a great expenditure in railway enterprise
had a necessary tendency to increase the revenue of
the country, because they had had a great expenditure of money
upon railways, and that, too, in a year of great deficiency. if
that was not his argument, what w.ls it? His argument cer-
tainly was, that they had a great deficiency in the revenue, as-
similating with a great expenditure in railways, and therefore
a great expenditure in railways did not at all tend to increase
the revenue of the country. The lion. Gentleman had, how-
ever, just stated, that when he referred on a former occa• ion to
the expenditure upon seven of the lines of railways which he
then named, he did not refer to it in order to show the
amount expended lout the amount about to be expender'.
What, then, became of the other portion of the Hon. Mem-
ber's are ? If he meant anything at all, he meant to
show that Hon. Gentlemen on his side of the House were all
for railways ; hut he (Mr. Goulburn ) could show that the ex-
penditure upon railways would not advance the revenue of the
country, for in the year 1840 there was a deficiency of
2,500,0001., and they had, at the same time, a proposition to
spend 47,000,0001. ; therefore the House might see that a de-
ficiency of 2 500,000/. was of more power than the proposed
expenditure of 47,000,000/. Suppose, for instance, that the
proposed expenditure had been an amount equal to that of
the national debt, the Honourable Member might then
hive got up and said there was a great deficiency
but he would undertake to show them what they expende..! in
public works would not produce any benefit to the revenue,
because there was a proposed expenditure of 801,000,0)01.,
and they still had an increased deficiency. And when, there-
tore, the Honourable Member said that the amount of capital
he referred to was not raised, but proposed to be raised, what
became of his arguments ? He thought that was the real
state of the case. He certainly thought that it would
be better to have had the speech of the Honourable
Gentleman answered at once in the Committee. The
opinion expressed by the Hon. Gentleman was an opinion
of great weight, and coming from so great an authority
had had great weight with persons out of doors. The state-
ment made by Mr. Laing, and alluded to by the Hon. Member,

Coalworks and Edinburgh and Glasgow Turnpike Road).
Newry and Enniskillen.
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead (Extension
from Lavenham to Bury St. Edmund's).
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead (Extension
to Melford, Lavenham, and Clare).
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead (Stour
Navigation Purchase).
Taw Vale Railway and Dock (Deviations and Bideford and
South Molton Branches).
Avlsham and North Walsham.
East Lothian Central.
Duffryn Llynvi, and Porth Cawl and Llynvi Valley Rail-
ways Amalgamation.
Guildford Extension, and Portsmouth and Fareham.
London and South-Western.

NOTICES GIVEN AT TIIE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
'f he following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a
second time:—

FRIDAY. MARCH 5.
Taw Vale Railway and Dock.
London and North-Western (Lime. street, Liverpool, Station
Extension, &c.)
London and North-Western (Portobello and Wolverhampton
Branch, Sic.)
Cambridge, St. Neot's, and Bedford Junction.
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (Branch from Stowmarliet
to Sudbury).
Edinburgh and Northern (St. Andrew's and Newburgh
Harbour, Branches, and Road Crossings, Newport Railway
Extension).
Blandford and Bruton.

rotisse 1-e given to the sub-committee and that it be recom
mended to the Court of Common Council to give notice to
the Chamberlain of the 22d standing order, and that he do
not pay any sum of money by order of the Lord Mayor or
Court of Aldermen, or committee of Aldermen, to which
they were not entitled by some Act, without the order of
the Court of Common Council, That the Town-Clerk be
Instructed to apply to the Court of Aldermen for a copy of
the case and opinion lately prepared by their direction ; and
that it is the right of the Court of Common Council, in
Common Council assembled, to regulate and mitred the
business and proceedings of that Court and the order and
course of its proceedings, and to regulate its paper of business.
These resolutions were carried; and the last was agreed to
itnanimously amongst them.
Mr. Asir URST then rose and said, the sub-committee, during
his unavoidable absence, had agreed to certain questions,
which they recommended should be submitted to the several
officers of the Corporation. In the propriety of putting some
of those questions be entirely concurred. With respect to
others he did not concur. He should therefore move that
the first and last should be adopted.
Mr. BURN contended that the committee needed informa-
tion upon the important matter in controversy between the
two Courts, and that the law officers of the Corporation were
the proper persons to advise them. He should, therefore,
propose such of the questions at Mr. Ashurst might not think
proper to adopt.—( Hear.)
Mr. ANDERTON was of opicion that the committee having
already prepared a resolution denying that the Lord Mayor
possessed such a right as that for which he contended, it
would appear higily inconsistent in them to ask the opiti-ons
of their officers upon the very questions on which they had
already expressed their own judgment.
Mr. KING said he cared not what might be said by others
of any course of proceeding that might be adopted, if it was
a right couise. The committee could never be justly
charged with incorrstency if, notwithstanding the belief
they might themselves entertain upon any given subject,
they endeavoured to obtain from their own officers a state-
ment of their opinion.—(Hear.) He should vote in favour
of the whole of the questions.
Alderman SIDNEY said the course here proposed was a
highly judicious measure, and he should cheerfully support
the proposal for submitting all the questions to the delibe-
rate consideration of all the legal staff of the Corporation.
He hoped the result of their opinions might lead to a better
state of feeling than for some time past had appeared to
exist.— (Hear.)
Some of the members opposed, and others approved of
putting the whole of the questions.
The CHAIRMAN said, that as the questions had been pre-
pared by the City Solicitor, it would be perhaps expedient to
call upon that officer for an explanation of reasons why he
thought these questions ought to be put.
Mr. PRIOR said it was unfair to the City Solicitor to say
be had prepared these questions. They lied been prepared
by a sub-committee, under the advice and with the assist-
ance of the City Solicitor it was true, but they were really
the questions of the sub-committee ; and it would be placing
that gentleman in an unpleasant situation, considering um
differences which existed amongst themselves, to call upon
him to assign his reasons for preparing them in their present
form.—( Hear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN said the City Solicitor had no objection to
afford the Committee any explanation they might require, if
it were their pleasure to call upon him.—(Hear.)
A resolution was then passed to that effect, and
The CITY SOLICITOR rose and said he should be ashamed
of himself if, from false delicacy or from pusillanimous fear
of giving offence, he would shrink from the discharge of his
place and obvious duty as the practical law adviser of the
Corporation—the duty of expressing his upinion with as much
frankness and clearness as possible, upon any and every
question, any branch of the Corporation might think proper
to put to him.—(Hear, hear.) After very nearly 30 years'
connexion with the Corporation, his mind had been pretty
well made up as to the various matters of controversy which
for some time past had, unhappily, agitated the two Courts, and
threatened to shake the Corporation to its very foundation.—
(Hear, hear.) He had neither courted nor shunned the ex-
pression of his opinion upon those questions, and having been
called upon by the sub-committee, he had fearlessly stated
his opinion on every one. The only condition he had reli-
giously observed from the beginning of those lamented differ-
ences was, to hold no private conferences with any individual
members of the Corporation upon the subjects of dispute.
Before any committee, large or small, as long as some gentle-
man from the Town-clerk's Office was present to take a regu-
lar minute of what passed, he had been always ready to
place his opinions and his pen and voleant quantum at their
disposal.—( Hear.) From, the commencement of the contro-
versy he had thought it would be expedient for the Common
Council to request from their officers a written opinion, plainly
and unequivocally pointing out to the members of the Corpo-
ration what, in their judgment, were the respective rights
and duties of the various branches of the municipal body in
respect to themselves and to each other.—(Hear, hear.)
The questions now recommended by the sub-committee
were prepared for the express purpose of obtaining plain and
distinct answers in writing upon all the subjects in &intro-
versy. They had been hastily penned, and were not so per-
fect as they might have been rendered, had more time for
consideration been allowed. They, however, raised the whole
ve.rato questio in a manner so especially plain, that, coupled
with the anxiety which every corporate officer must feel to
afford all the information in his power, the committee would
have bef ire them the concentrated essence of all the law, the
learning, and general intelligence, not only of those law
officers strictly so called, bitt of those able gentlemen in the
various departments'of the. Corporation, whether judicial or
administrative, whose legal education and intimate acquaint-
ance with its customs, charters, and usages, best qualified
them to form a sound judgment upon all the matters pro-
pounded for their consideration.—(Hear, hear.) For his
own part, his opinions upon these matters were well known.
They had sustained no change by his elevation to office. It
was true, that in the highly respectable office he filled, he had
deemed it to be his duty to consider every subject submitted
to his official opinion more thoughtfully, and to express him.
self more cautiously than it had been his custom when act-
ing as an independent member of the Court of Common
Council, without the weight of those responsibilities
which attached to his omelet position.—(Rear, hear.)
He, however, on this and all other inquiries was in search
of truth ; and if, as was generally understood, he had ..the
misfortune to differ in opinion from kis superior officers, he
earnestly desired to have the benefit of their opinions suc-
cinctly and definitely stated, in order that his own might be
corrected or confirmed. At present they had only viva ',ore
opinions from his superior officers—opinions vaguely and am-
biguously expressed. In his humble judgment the interests
and the very existence of a great corporation should not be
perilled by the fierce contentions which had prevailed in the
Court of-Common Council, without the members having
before them a single sentence in writing from any one of
their responsible officers, advising what were, and what were
not, their privileges and rights. If the Common Council had
not, as was contended, the right to have such questions
brought before them for consideration as they might deem
beneficial to the community without the consent of one gen-
tleman, however exalted his reek, or however honourable
and intelligent he might be, it was quite clear that their
functions as a deliberative assembly were at an end, and they
really had not so much power as was exercised at a parish
vestry.(Hear, hear.) It was of the deepest importance to
the members to be informed upon the best authority, whether
that was really the legal status of the commoners in the
great municipal representative body of the first city in the
world. If the concurrent opinions of his colleagues should
be to that effect, he could not expect that his judgment
would countervail their high authority, and the Committee
would then have before them something tangible end au-
thentic to enable them to decide whether an appeal to the
Legislature was or was not indispensable to the future welfare
of our corporate institutions. It had been his good fortune
to receive from those who ranked high in the profession
a testimony of their opinion of his judgment s a corporation
lawyer, and he did not intend upon slight grounds to sur-
render the reputation which, after many years' study, he
had acquired. But, as City Solicitor, he should regard the
answers of his superior officers with the greatest deference
and respect. If he could honestly change his own opinions
after reading theirs, lie trusted he should have the manliness
to say so. If, on the other hand, the facts and arguments
they Might bring forward failed to produce conviction on his
mind, he e
trusted he s
should
be excused if he adhered to his
own opinion.—( 11e )
Mr. ASHURST said, after hearing the City Solicitor's argu-
ml
ents h
questions. —e had takn upon himself to move the adoption of
al the (Cheess.)
Mr. ANDEICTON said he should support them for the same
ar hear.
reason.
the questions were then unanimously adopted, and the
Comptroller, the
following officers were requested to give their opinions upon
the questions:—The Recorder, the Common-Sergeant, the
ToTwhnetChfoe Pleaderslelloivrk,i
theng arei‘ the questions
Ryland, RRemernbrancer, the Soli-
citor,andell, Laurie, and Lock.
questions :
" Ist. Is the legislative and administrative municipal go-
vernment of the city of London vested in the Lord Mayor
Aldermen, and Common Council assembled? ,
"2d. Are the presence of a Lord Mayor, the presence of
env and what minimum number of Aldermen, and the pre-
sence of any and what number of Commoners essential to
constitute a legal Court? And is the Court dissolved by the
departure of the Lord Mayor, or of the Aldermen, or of the
Commoners, so as to reduce those bodies respectively below
the minimum number?
" 3d. To enable the Court of Common Council to discuss
and decide upon any and what corporate questions, is it
essential that they should be inserted in a paper of business
and a printed summons for the meeting of the Court?
Mayor a right to exclude from the
summons" 4ttl.
H or as
pa the Lord
of business any of such questions which the
members may think it necessary to discuss?
" sth. If, in point of fact, they were excluded from the
er
summons and paper of business, have the members of the
Court a right to have them discussed?
" 6th. Has the Lord Mayor the right to refuse to put to the
vote any such questions which may be duly moved and
m'son?
se-
conded, when they are ripe for de
" 7th. Has the Lord Mayor, or have the Aldermen, as a
body, or as individuals the right of veto to stay the pass-
ing of any, and if any, what description of measures, in
the Court of Common Council;
• or, the Court being duly
formed, do the votes of the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen
present, consort only numerically with the voices of the
commoners?
" Bth. Considering the state of the public business, and the
differences which prevail between the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, the Aldermen, and the Common in
Council, regard to
the recent proceedings in the Court of Common Council, what
measures with reference to the welfare of the City do you re.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT:-
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman HUNTER.)
LARCENY.—Mary Ann Brooks, aged 22, a simple looking
girl, was indicted for having abstracted from the house of
her master, Mr. Denny, a surgeon in the London-road, a cap
and other trifling articles, which she had given to a person
calling himself Lieutenant Player, of the Royal Horse Guards
Blue, then and now a prisoner in the Queen's Bench.
Mr. Parnell was for the prosecution ; Mr. Clarkson for the
defence.

The case was so far singular, that the person for whose
benefit the things were. so taken, the Lieutenant Player i n
question, was the very man who gave information to Mr.
Denny of the larceny.
After having given his evidence for the prosecution, he
was severely cross-examined by Mr. Ci..tnisox, who endea-
voured to make him show, by his own confession, that be
had been " a bonnet" or decoy at a gaming-house; that he
had endeavoured to obtain from certain tradesmen 3001
worth of watches; and that, in short, he was a person on
whose word no reliance could be placed. Other witnesses
having been heard,
The RECORDER summed up in favour of the prisoner, and
the jury at once returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
LARCENY AND EMBeZZLIMENT.—I;iZabeat SW., a mar-
ried female, aged 27, was charged with embezz ing two sums,
amounting, in all, to 345., and a table-cloth and handker-
chief, from her master, James Ives Deare.
The prisoner put into Court a written defence, to the effcct
that Mrs. • !care had encouraged her, by articles of dress and
loans of money, to go to dances, and t hat to provide funds
for this purpose she had taken the sums mentioned iu the
indictment.

Mrs. Deare admitted having made up a dress for the pri-
soner to go to a ball, but denied that she had ever given her
money for any other purpose than the supporting her husband
and children.

The REconnEa said, that in consideration of the imprison-
ment she had already undergone, and also of the good cha-
racter she had formerly borne, the sentence of the Court
would be very lenient. Sentenced to six weeks' imprison-
ment in the gaol of Newgate.
ROBBERY.—John Conxell, aged 27, described as a labourer,
was charged with robbing from the door of Mr. Henry
Withers, hosier, stockings to the value of Itiot. The case
was proved, and the prisoner sentenced to six mouths' im-
prisonment with hard labour.
John Williams, labourer, found guilty of dealing two
pewter pots from the premises of George James, a licensed
victualler, aggravated by being known as a common thief,
was sentenced to eighteen mouths' imprisonment, and to be
kept to hard labour.

Several other cases of a like unimportant character were
tried in the course of the day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
Robert Jenkins and Junin IVilliams, two persons having
the appearance of respectable tradesmen, were placed at the
bar before Mr. Jardine, charged with attempting to obtain
goods from Mr. Prew, tailor, 247, Strand, by means of a
forged cheque.
Mr. Prew stated, that yesterday afternoon the prisoners
entered his shop together, and Jenkins asked to look at a
coat, and selected one. Williams selected a pair of trowsers.
Jenkins offered a. cheque in payment. W imams said he
lived in the neighbotirhood, and wrote his name and an
address (which has since been found to be false) on the back
of the cheque. He (prosecutor) said he would send to the
bank to get it cashed, but the prisoner said, no, dots% send
it to the bank, give it to me, as I am going that way, and I
will call again. He, however, insisted on sending to the
bank, and sent a clerk there. The prisoners went away.
The clerk returned, bringing word that there were no effects.
The prisoner Jenkins returned in about an hour, and
Wil-
liams in about an hour and a half, and he gave them into
custody.
Mr. Wolf, who appeared for the prisoners, submitted that
there was no evidence of fraudulent intention, and it was not
at all likely that persons who had left a forged cheque in a
shopkeeper's hands, to be sent to the Bank, would call again
in an hour.
Mr. JARDINE said that though the fact that they returned
to inquire what had become of the cheque was in their
favour, it was too serious a charge to be passed over without
fnrther inquiry. The prisoners must therefore be remanded
till Friday next.—Remanded accordingly.
MARLBOROUGH-SIR EET.
Three boys named Biggs, Macgregor, and Mott, were
brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with hiving stolen
some plate, value 11., from the shop of Mr. Fitchen, silver-
smith, Oxford-street.
Samuel Hart said, he was in the employ of Messrs. Duff
and Hodgson, music sellers, Oxford-street. On Wednesday
last he saw the three prisoners standing at Mr. Fitchen's
window; Macgregor was cutting the window with some in-
strument, Biggs was standing behind so as to screen him,
and Mott was waiting by Macgregor's side with a basket
ready, apparently to receive the plunder. Macgregor hav-
ing succeeded in cutting through the window, immediately
took out of a case a knife, a fork, and spoon, that were ex-
posed for sale, and put them in Motes basket. Witness im-
mediately went forward and secured Mott, the other pri-
soners ran off.
Mr. Fitchen proved that the property had been seen in his
shop window just before the robbery was committed.
Police-constable Cousins, D 33, said lie took Biggs and
Macgregor into custody, and he knew that both were bad
characters. lie had seen Mott, who was an errand boy to a
doctor, in Macgregor's society, and had warned him against
keeping such bad company. He believed Mott had been
drawn into the offence by the other two boys.
Mr. BINGHAM said he should make a difference in the case
of Mott, by allowing his friends to bail him.
All three boys were then committed.
Last week an application was made on behalf of Mr. Bohn,
a bookseller, for a warrant against a gentleman, named
Francis Buchanan Hoare, for having, as alleged, improperly
disposed of between 5001. and 1,0001. worth of valuable
books, the property of Mr. C. Carisbrook, the Bishop of
Llandaff, and others. On hearing the evidence in support
of the application, Mr. Bingham consented to issue the war-
rant, and this warrant was immediately placed in the hands
of a police-constable, who was to execute it in Ireland,
where, it was alleged, Mr. Hoare was then residing. Yester-
day Mr. Hoare, who it appeared was not in Ireland, accorn-
panied by his professional adviser, came into court to meet
the charge; but on an intimation being conveyed to Mr.
Bingham that the complainants were unprepared to go into
the case, owing to the absence on circuit of counsel who had
been instructed to appear in support of the charge,
Mr. BINGHAM said, as the untbreseen surrender of the de-
fendant, and the absence of the counsel, placed the com-
plainant in an embarrassing position with respect to the
evidence, it was but reasonable to give the complainant the
benefit of a short adjournment.
Mr. Hoare'e professional adviser was very anxious that no
delay should take place. His client was prepared with a full
answer to the charge. He should wish to see the depositions
on which the warrant had been granted.
Mr. BINGHAM sent for the warrant-book, and gave the re-
quired information.
Mr. Hoare's professional adviser conceived there had been
nothing on the part of his client to call for the proceedings
that bad taken place.
Mr. Biectrast said he had no opinion to pronounce in the
matter. All he should say was, that Mr. Bohn was placed in
a peculiar position before the Court of Bankruptcy. A
large part of his stock had disappeared. It had been re-
moved by the direction of the defendant, and this was the
charge the defendant would be required to answer on W ed-
nesday next.
Bail was accepted, and the parties retired.
George Wilkinson was brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged with going to the residence of Mr. Michael Tomlin-
son, 70, Berners-street, Oxford street, with a false message,
for the purpose of committing a felony.
The prosecutor stated that at about eight o'clock last
night a lad had called from the carrier's with a box, which
was to go to Tooting. Complainant went into the ball to
speak to the lad, and observed that he had taken a great-coat
from off the pegs, and had thrown it behind where he was
standing. Ile asked him what he was doing with the coat,
when he replied that it had just fallen off one of the pegs.
He then told him to be off about his business, or be would
give him in charge. Shortly afterwards the prisoner came,
and said that he SSTs sent from the King and Ship public-
house, in Regent-street, for a box which had been left by
mistake. Knowing that there was no such house in that
street, and thinking that the prisoner was an accomplice of
the other boy, he gave Lint in charge to police-constable C,
40, and on searching him at the station-house, there were
found in his pocket two latch and two skeleton keys, and a
strong knife.
The prisoner, who declined making any defence, was re-
manded till Monday next.
CL E R E N WELL.
Five respectably. dressed young men, named Milner, Green,
Scales, Want, and Phillippo, were charged with being drunk
and disorderly this morning, and throwing stones at the
gate of St. Pancras Workhouse, and causing a disturbance.
It appeared that the parties, who were well acquainted
with some of the subordinate workhouse officials, had been
making merry at a public-house nearly opposite to the en-
trance, when, in an exuberance of good nature, they deter-
mined to have a cup with their parochial friends, and in pur-
suance of that resolution, went to the workhouse-gate and
began knocking, shouting, and kicking at it until at last the
uproar became so great that the police found it necessary to
interfere. The prisoners, being pot-valiant, swore no police-
man should interfere with them, and the result was, a severe
struggle, which ended in the five gentlemen being ensconced
in the station-house for the night.
Mr. COMBE ordered each of them to pay a fine of 55., and
in default to be imprisoned for three days.
Charles Blansgrove, a well-known thief, was charged with
stealing a pair of boots from the shop of Mr. Sherwood, boot
and shoe-maker, of Calthorpe- street, Gray's Inn-road.
The prosecutor's shopman, while sitting in a room behind
the shop, saw the prisoner come in, snatch the boots from a
shelf on which they were placed near the door, and run away
with them. AIN Sherwood gave him chase, and after a
sharp run, caught him near the end of Gray's Inn-lane.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
George Smith, who was described on the police-sheet as a
printer, residing at 4, Clara-court, Clare-market, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Greenwood, charged, at the instance of
the Excise, with having unlawfully in his possession a quan-
tity of illicit spirits, without a permit, contrary to the sta-
tute of 6 George IV., chap. 80, which subjected him to a
penalty of 1001., or six months' imprisonment.
A solicitor from the Excise-office attended for the prose-
cution.

It appeared that some Excise officers were searching a
`'Jigger"
in Bellock-alley, Whitecross-street, St. Luke's, where
'Jigger" spirits were sold. A knock came at the door,
Wind? being opened, the prisoner was found with a basket
containing three bladders, in which were five gallons of
illicit spirits. The prisoner had no permit, and he was
taken to the station-house. On inquiries at 4, Clare-court,
which address the prisoner gave, he was found not to be
living there, but at 9, George-street, Camberwell, where the
officers discovered a private still at work, which they seized.
A turnpike ticket was found in the prisoner's possession,
from which it was evident that he must, just before his ap-
prehension, have driven through the Green Man gate, near
Camberwell.
Mr. GRIENWOOD remarked, that the practice of selling
such pernicious stuff as "jigger" spirits, which were worse
than poison, had become very prevalent in St. Luke's. lie
read the Act of Parliament to the prisoner, which said, the
penalty was 1001, but it might be mitigated to one-fourth,
and in default to six or three months' imprisonment. In
this instance he would not mitigate, and he convicted the
imprisonment,
leaving in the penalty of 100/. or six months'
leaving him, if he thought proper, to apply to the Commis-
sioners of Excise.
Charles Learner, Robert Gladstone, Edward. Jones, John
Murphy, and Jane Goulden, were charged with being con-
cerned in the following robbery :
They entered the house of Mrs. Mills, the Red Lion and
Punch Bowl, St. John's-street, Clerkenwell, on Monday morn-
ing, and went into the tap-roons. They called for some
porter, and during the temporary absence of Miss Mills from
the bar, they contrived between them to plunder the till of
ss. 3d. Todd, 221, Martin, 122, and 46 G, were called in,
and they took the prisoners into custody.
The prisoners denied the charge, but they were fully
committed tor trial. Learner and Gladstone were admitted
to bail.

WORSHIP-STREET.
James Newitt, in the . employment of Messrs. Pickford and
Co., charged with atealiDg a bag containing two bashela of

peas, and William Filmer, who described himself as a baker's
dust collector, with receiving the same, well knowing them
to have been stolen, were placed at the bar.
• Sergeant Brennan, of the detective force, stated that he ob-
served Newitt take from a van he was driving the bag above
mentioned, and carry it into Filmer's house. The latter soon
after made his appearance outside the dwelling, when wit-
ness, went up to him and inquired concerning the tik.;.
Filmer replied that he knew nothing whatever of what wit-
ness alluded to, and the latter might search the premises. He
(witness) did so, and at length, in a shed, at the rear of the
house, he discovered the bag in question.
Mr. I'aris, manager in the employment of the above firm,
stated that the contents of the bag, the peas, corresponded
precisely to the immense bulk of that commodity the company
had in their possession.
Mr. Paris, solicitor to the firm, attended to watch the pro-
. ceediugs, and the depositions were at length desired to be
made out, preparatory to the prisoners' full committal for
trial, and they were accordingly removed for that purpose.
It. was stated that a similar system of robbery had been
carried on for several years past.
_ _

!HALVES.
Mr. John Crandon, the master of a ship called the Gazelle,
lying off Horselydown, appeared bellure Mr. Yardley to answer
a charge of assaulting a poor woman named Clara Watts,
under very peculiar circumstances.
It appeared froas the evidence of the complainant, a widow
who was very meanly clad, that she lived in Grove-road,
Mile-end. 6n Wednesday last she was in company with a
female friend much younger than herself, when they met the
defendant, who was very drunk. A dirty-lookieg man was
with him, trying to mob him. Witness aed her fiend inter-
fered, and, after some trouble, succeeded in getting rid of the
defendant's very questionable companion, and, fearing that
the defendant would get into trouble again, offered to see him
home. He made them understand he was master of a ship in
the river, and he thanked them ard asked them to accom-
pany him on board, which they consented to do. On reach-
ing the Gazelle he invited them into his cabin, and treated
them with brandy-and-water. He soon afterwards quitted
the ship with the other woman, for the purpose of buying
some fish, leaving a bottle of brandy on the cabin table. On
his return with the complainant's friend heseemed to be much
enraged, and ordered her to leave the ship immediately. She
declined doing so without her friend, who, however, seemed
inclined to remain on board. The defendant immediately
commenced beating the complainant. He tore her cap off and
beat her, and was proceeding to further violence, when the Cus-
tom-house officer stationed on board stood between the parties.
The defendant said he would not be baulked, and he struck
the woman again. He tore the hair from her head and drag-
ged her along the deck. The mate of another vessel came
on board and rescued her, and she called for the police and
was taken ashore. She was very much hurt by the violence
of the defendant, and she declared she offered no provocation
for the violence committed upon her.
The defendant, who had obtained a postponement of the
ease from Saturday, on a representation that he would bring
a Custom-house officer to prove that he was net the aggres-
sor, made a very lame defence to the charge, and said the
woman made more free in his cabin than he wished, and
drank his brandy. He ordered her to leave the vessel, and
she refused to go, on which he attempted to eject her, and
she struggled and scratched him. He then called his mate,
who did not help him much, and said he saw a scuffle going
on upon deck, and the captain wished one of the women to
leave the vessel.
Mr. Ymenear—And the other to remain on board?—
The mate believed that was so. The other woman did stop.
The complainant said, her friend had remained on board
the Gazelle with the captain ever since Wednesday.
The defendant admitted he had kept the woman in his
cabin since Wednesday, and she was there still. He then
endeavoured to exculpate himself, but in a very clumsy
manner.
Mr. YARDLEY said, the conduct of the defendant was
highly reprehensible, and that he would not entrust bins
with the command of a vessel if he had one. He had taken
two women, strangers to bins, on board the Gazelle; and
one of them had been since detained for purposes which no
one who heard the case could doubt for one moment. It ap-
peared that the defendant had acted with violence to the
woman Watts, and had attempted to eject her from his ship
in a violent, rough, and unbecoming way. He fined the de-
fendant 10s. and costs, which was immediately paid.
LAMBETH.
King, a well-dressed and rather good. looking young
woman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Eiliott, on a charge
of having been found working an illicit still.
From the statement of the Excise officer, it appeared that,
from information which they received, they proceeded to
the house, 9, George-street, Old Kent-road, and having
knocked at the door, it was opened by a woman, not the
prisoner. They inquired for a person named Bartlett,i a
notorious "jigger," and were told that no such person was
known there. They (the officers) then proceeded down
stairs, and there found a 20-gallon copper still at work, with
ten tubs, and, in fact, a complete apparatus for distillation.
The prisoner, in reply to the questions then put to her by
the officers, said that she had been requested by the man
to whom the place belonged to attend to a tub into which the
spirit was flowing, and see that it did not run over. She
also said she did not even know the name of the man who
had made sods a request of her. The officers informed the
magistrates they had no doubt whatever the distillery be-
longed to Baetlett, who had been apprehended on Saturday
for another offence against the Excise laws, and that lie had
left the prisoner to carry it on for him. They further said,
they had no doubt that the distillery had been carried on to
a considerable extent, as, amongst other things found in the
place, were a number of large bladders, which seemed to have
been frequently used.
The prisoner, in defence, said that she had been merely
on a visit to the house, and had no idea of what was going
on until requested by the man to keep an eye to the tub and
see it did not run over.
Mr. Etraorr remarked, that there could be no doubt that
the fact was otherwise, and that she was working the still.
For this offence he should impose the lowest penalty,
namely, 301., or three months' imprisonment.
If ES TAI I NS TER.
Thomas Ifilliams, a dirty-looking flow, about thirty
yaws of age, was finally examined, charged with defrauding
several tradesmen.
For some months past a number of tradesmen at Chelsea
and Pimlico have been plundered by a person answering the
prisoner's description, occasionally- assisted by a woman
having the appearance of a servant girl. The system had
recourse to was this:—The prisoner or his accomplice, who
had escaped detection, ordered some trifling article, gene-
rally' amounting to about 45., to be sent with change for a
sovereign, to some person residing in the neighbourhood,
when the prisoner met the errand-boy at the door of the
house, and, taking the goods and change from him, gave
hint either a spurious sovereign or two halves.
Two cases having been clearly proved against the prisoner,
he was fully committed for trial.

MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY.)
HAT MARX ET g
SMITIIFI M.D.—Meadow Hay, 216 s to 31165; Clover ditto,
3/ 8s to 4/ 16s ; and Straw, 11 10s to 1/ 14s per load.
A full average supply, and a dull trade.
CUMBERLAND.—AIeadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 4/ Os; Clover ditto,
3/ 5s to 41 I6s ; and Straw, 1/ 12s to 1116 s per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trade firm.
WIIITECHAPIL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to 3/ 15s; Clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 5/; and Straw, I/ lOs to 1/ 14s per load.
Trade dull, at barely last week's quotations.
COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is heavy, only
about 50 hhds having found buyers at 6d to Is decline. The
public sales have comprised 13,885 bags 371 casks Mauritius,
and 3,338 bags Bengal, which went off heavily, but chiefly
sold at irregular prices, generally at a further decline of Is.
Mauritius brought 47s to 52s 6d for low to fine yellow, 42s to
468 Gd for low to good brown, with a few lots crystallised at
48s 6d to 55s Gd for low grey to good yellow; Bengal mid
to good yellow; Bengal mid to good white; Bonares, 50s
to 525.

COFFEE.—A good business has been done in good ord
native Ceylon at 42s to 435, which is Is dearer.
Ric:.-500 bags Bengal were taken in at 24s for good
white, which is the previous value.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 50s 9d to sls per cwt on the spot;
and Town, 525.
TEA.—The market is steady.

(From the London New Price Current of March 2.)
SUGAR.—To-day importers of Sugar were desirous to
realise, and abundantly supplying the market, caused a fur-
ther fall in the value of all sorts, notwithstanding the demand
was good for East India and Mauritius for the pan and scale;
but for brewing and distilling there are yet few operators.
The market for West India had a dull appearance, all quali-
ties being purchased with much caution.
FOREIGN.—The stock has been further increased of Foreign
Sugar, and merchants being willing sellers of the descrip-
tions available for home consumption, and supplying the
market largely, produced a fall in the value of all descript ions.
The demand, however, has been good, and the parcels offered
at auction were all sold, chiefly consisting of the better de-
scriptions. The importation of all sorts is likely to be much
greater than last year. and the quality of that already re-
ceived is better than that of the past season.
lizeiNeo.—To-day Refined goods met with little attention
from the home trade, although there are sellers upon further
reduced terms. The refiners are generally anxious sellers.
For Bonded Crushed Sugar there is a large export demand,
and it is difficult to purchase best quality under 36s per cwt.
Mataimus.—This afternoon two parcels of Mauritius
Sugar, amounting to 16,126 bags, were offered at public auc-
tion, the chief part of which consisted of bright grocery de-
scriptions. The whole sold, at a reduction on former rates of
Is per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Madras sugar was not much
in demand, and 4,419 bags at auction were only partly sold
at a fall on former rates of Is..
MOLASSES.—For West India the demand has been limited
for all descriptions. The value of low to fine quality is 22a
to 26s per cwt. A small parcel of good St. Kitts sold at
24s 6d. East India Treacle is dull of sale, and 24s to 25s
are the nearest rates. Honey is offered upon reduced terms,
COFFEE.—This afternoon at auction 10 casks Jamaica sold
at 65s for low middling; 331 bags of Plantation Ceylon, fine
fine ordinary 60s to 655, fine ordinary 56s to 58s, ordinary
455, low ordinary 41s 6d, triage 24s 6d ; 101 bags Costa Rica
36s for good ordinary, and 45s for
fine ordinary. By private
treaty there was less desire evinced to operate in Native
Ceylon ; but there are not sellers under 43s for good ordinary,
and only a small amount of business was done.
TEA.—There are further arrivals, consisting chiefly of the
better descriptions, still none has again been submitted to
public sale; the stock is not so heavy as it was at this time
last year, whilst the deliveries are much larger of all sorts.
The town and country trade hold small stocks, notwithstand-
ing the large purchases made by them of late. Congou is
not offered upon lower terms, but the demand has fallen off
for all sorts, and only a limited business has been done.
FRUIT —For export to Holland a good business has been
done in Currants at 52s for Zante, and the market has a
firmer appearance.
Hope.—The operations have been upon a more extended
scale, especially in the better sorts. Holders show firmness,
and offer only a moderate quantity for sale. We quote Sussex
pkts at 78s to 88s, Weald of Kent 86s to 98s, mid, and East
ditto 95s to 136 s per cwt.
Rice.—To-day Bengal met with little attention privately •
and 1,176 bags at auction only partly sold at 21s for good
bold white, and at 22a to 23s for damaged, which is the
former value

SPICES.—To-day at public sale 18 casks Dutch limed Nut-
megs for exportation only were in part sold at 3a 21. to 3s 3d
for bold, which is the full value; 1G casks of various sorts
for home consumption were ofr,red, and chiefly taken in—
Madras wormy at is 6d, Singapore middling brown 3s. to
3s. 2d, fair middling 3s 4d: 1 case Mace sold at 3s 7d for
middling red.
COCIIINEAL.—AII descriptions are much in demand, and
the rates paid are rather above those that existed previously.
The deliveries are far exceeding those of last year, whilst the
stock is less ; at public sale 118 bags of Honduras were all
disposed of at 5s 7d to 6s for good ordinary to fine silvers, and
7 bags of black at Gs 8d to 7s Id per lb.
SPIRITS.—To-day there were sellers of all descriptions of
Rum upon lower terms, still exporters and the home trade
operated with caution ; proof Leewards can be obtained at 3s
9d to 34 10d; East India 3s 5d to 3s 6d; and Jamaica 30
to 38 pei cent ; over proof at 5s to Gs per gallon. The sup-
ply is on the increase of East India.
Orts.—There has been an increased desire manifested to
operate in Cocoa Nut Oil, and prices have improved. Holders
of Palm are still willing sellers, but submit to rather lower ,
rates. In Rape Seed Oil large purchases have been wade,