The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-06 00:00:00

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ELLS JAN. s.—The Orwell, Martin, w towed off the
Woolpack Sand to-day by the Wilberforceas (steamer), and
Proceeded for Hull in tow.

,KET NEWS -(THIS DAY

CORN-EXCHANGE —WEDNESDA Y
The show of English Wheat samples here was again very
small; yet, owing to the extreme rates demanded by the
holders, the amount of business actually passing was trifling.
However, in every instance, Monday's prices were well
supported. In free Foreign Wheat the sales were to a fair
extent, and the late advance in the currencies were freely
maintained. Several parcels of inferior bonded Wheat were
taken on Irish account, at high rates. The Barley trade
was firm ; but we can notice no further improvement in value.
Draft was in moderate request, at unusually high rates-87s.
having been paid for fine Chevalier. Oats, Beans, and Peas
supported the late advances; while the top price of Flour
was 653. per 2801bs.

ErICLI3h
Irian ...
Foreign
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AitII7;,ALS.
Wheat. I Barley.
1,130 qrs., 1,560 qrs.

Oats I Flour.
-- qrs. 1,420 ski
700 J

2,600

Malt. 1.910 qrs.
AVIIITECHAJPEL.
The supplies of each kind of meat being on the increase,
the demand was in a very sluggish state, and prices were
with difficulty supported. Beet; from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mut-
ton, 33 8d to 43 6d; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d; and Pork, 3s 8d to
4s 10d per 81b, by the carcase.

SECONDARIES'-(THIS DAY.)
T BLACKMAN V. WEBB.
bale hiS WEIS an action to recover the sum of 41., the
aace due on a promissory note. The defendant de-
nie-Jd making the note.
The plaintiff's solicitor said he should be able to prove
the defendant's signature, and thAt 11. was paid on ac-
count, and called
Henry Baker—An objection was taken to this witness
being examined, on the ground that the money was ad-
taneed by a loan society in which he was interested.
The SECONDARY said that did not show that the wit-
mess was an incompetent witness: he might hold some
appointment.
The defendant's attorney asked whether witness was
not a shareholder as well as clerk, and was answered
in the negative.
the
witness then deposed that the defendant signed
itpe,itztheo.oklonfeross-exatnination he admitted entries in
Payments to the amount of 11. .ss.
deuce The SECONDARY said that he could not receive evi-
-I°f Payment under the plea. The defendant denied
by
tshiegnature, and on that plea plaintiff was entitled to a
verdict for the amount of the bill ; but he had admitted,
Particulars, the payment of IL, which was the
Only Sum could be deducted, notwithstanding any evi-
dence of further payment—the difference in amount was
"IY 55., but large or small, the principle was the same.
The jury gave a verdict for 41.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
MURDER CD3IMITTED UNDER INSANITY.—Mary Ann
46/9, a healthy-looking woman, aged 25, was charged,
°,,.11 the coroner's inquisition, with the wilful murder of
'James Ring, an infant, to whom she had shortly before
Riven birth. The prisoner had been removed to this
coart by an order of the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, from the Criminal Lunatic Asylum, in
which she was placed shortly after the occurrence, in
consequence of being afflicted with insanity, under the
influence of which, it was assumed, she had committed
the crica"!. As she subsequently became sane, and was
deernera in a fit state to be set free, it was necessary
that she should undergo the ordeal of a trial here, in
Order that a jury might decide upon the matter, and if
proved to their satisfaction that she was not a free agent
at the time, that she might be liberated.
Mr. Doane appeared for the prosecution.
Amelia Lyons, the mother of the prisoner,
Stated, that on the 22d of January last her
'decedaughter was delivered of twins, a boy (the
'deceased) and a girl. Shortly afterwards she
ased)
to be labouring under insanity, as she talked
incoherently upon religious subjects, and about her chil-
dren, and dying. On the 31st of that month, she was
in her room ; her (the prisoner's) husband was also
there. Her daughter was in bed suckling the infants. ,
Ilaving observed indications of insanity on the previous
Thursday, she was afraid to leave her alone, and having
occasion to go to the fire place, she desired her husband
to watch her. She turned towards the fire, and the next
moment the husband exclaimed, " Oh ! mother, she has
thrown herself on one of the children." He pulled her
tip, but she again flew at the child, and bit him on the
cheek. They succeeded in getting the child away, on
Whose face they found two marks and a little blood. She
took the child to Mr. Mason, a surgeon, in the neigh-
bourhood, whilst her husband' held her daughter down
on the bed with a sheet. She raved and besought him
to take care of her children. The child died three
weeks and two days after.
Mr. Mason, a surgeon, in High-street, Newington,
stated that the child was brought to him about ten
o'clock in the evening in question. He found his face,
especially the left cheek and the mouth, covered with
blood. On removing the blood, he found several punc-
tured wounds—one on the upper lip, one on the nostrils,
and another near the eye, which bore the imprints of
teeth. Inflammation ensued, and he attended the child
until his death. From feelings of humanity he visited
the prisoner the same night, and found her perfectly in-
sane. She was wholly unconscious of what she was
saying or dying.
Mr. Justice ERLE suggested to the jury, that if they
Were satisfied that the woman was unconscious at the
time, that they should acquit her on the ground of
asanity.
The jury accordingly Acquitted the prisoner on that
Ironed.
Mr. DOANE said the prisener became in a similar state
nn the birth of her first child.
M ad
14r. Justice ERLE said a representation would be
e to the Secretary of State, setting forth the state
ofher mind at the time, and the verdict of the jury,
sad she would be liberated.'
The woman was then removed.
COINING.—James Morris, aged 36, described as a
labourer, was convicted on two indictments, oharging
with having counterfeited a half crown, and of
'laving a mould in his possession.
Sergeant Brenan, an active and intelligent officer, and
a body of constables, proceeded to a house in Duck-lane,
Westminster. He broke into a room, and found the
Prisoner with a pipkin in his hand at the window, from
which he threw several articles, amongst which were
several counterfeit shillings. He was crushing a half-
crown mould under his feet. A counterfeit half-crown
was taken from him, but it was so hot that the sergeant
was obliged to put it into his pocket, and another
from the same mould was found in his possession.
There was a clear fire and a galvanic battery in the
room. The prisoner shouted from the window, and
brought some hundreds of the denizens of that part of
the metropolis, who assaulted the police severely, and
enabled the prisoner to escape. Sometime after he was
arrested at a house in the Borough in the very act of
coining; several dies and other coining implements were
found, and twenty-two counterfeit half-crowns, fifty
shillings, and a number of crown pieces. He blew out a
candle which was on the table and jumped out of the
Window. He was, however, immediately arrested. It
appeared that the prisoner had been known to the police
as a coiner for sixteen years.
The prisoner besought the Court to deal mercifully
With him on account of his having a wife and five young
children. He said he had been driven to the crime in
orderre to provide food for them. His parish had refused
him lief.
Mr. Justice MAULE sentenced the prisoner to be
transported for fifteen years on each indictment—thirty
Years altogether.

CO U RT.
ROBBERY OF THE W
HUNTINGDON AND WISBEACH
ItAILAVA. Y.— Wm. Poole, a very respectable young man appearance, and lately a clerk in the service of the
RUntingdon and Wisbeach Railway, was indicted with
stealing an order for the payment of 101., the property of
the company.
The jury acquitted the prisoner.
RA:TENSTVE ROBBERY.—The case of Francis Olifreres,
described in the calendar as a hair-worker, and who
stands charged with stealing property to the amount of
upwards of 4001., was postponed to the next session.
Mr. CLARKSON having made an application this morn-
ing to the Common-Sergeant, to delay the taking of the
Nvitnrases before the grand jury till that period, on the
grovind of the absence of a most material one, the
Learned Common-sergeant, upon an application for that
purpose, refused to liberate the prisoner upon bail, de-
clining to take upon himself so great a responsibility.
The parties if they wished to obtain the liberation of the
prisoner till the next sessions, must go before one of
the Learned Judges of the land and see if they could
Perattede him to take bail.

SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.)
Jane Morris, a woman fifty-five years of age, was in-
dicted for stealing is. 6d. out of a drawer in the bar of
the house of Mr. James Coles, at Godalming, on the
28th of December, Where she was employed as a char-
woman. Mr. Coles, the landlord, saw her unlock the
till and take something from it. He immediately
stopped her, and, found the money produced in the
Court, which he marked, and handed, with her, over to
the constable.
The jury found her Guilty, but recommended her
Mercy. She was sentenced to solitary confinement for
21 days,
w stealing a ewe
as indicted for ,-
Wm. White, aged 28,
sheep at Ripley, the property of Mr. John Metcalfe. In
another count he wa, charged with
.killing the sheen
with intent to carry off the fore and hind quarters. '
Mr, Locke was retained for the prosecution, and Mr.
Itobinson defended the prisoner.
Mr. LocitE, having stated the case, called
William Holington, inspector of police at Guildfi rd,
Who was sent for on the 28th of December, and was
shown the place where the sheep had been slaughtered.
Near to it he observed the tracks of a man's shoes for
for some distance where the carcase had been dragge
along. Prom information
which he received he went to the prisoner's house, whore he found a neck of mutton,
and, aftorwards, the carcase of a sheep tied up in a bag,
With the name upon it of Mr. Lambert, by whom White
Was employed. Witness subsequently
head of' the sheep with the carcase, as also the saddle'
compared the
with the place from which it was taken, and found them
to fit exactly lle had also compared the prisoner's
Shoes with the in%rks in the field, and found them to
.
'ranging
The prisoner was apprehended at a bars be-
t'ranging to Mr. Lambert.
. Cross-examined—The foot-marks were plain, but
hrewas nothing particular about them, and he did not
f,, BYre the nails with the indentations.
~.):the CHAIRMAN—He bad traced the marks from the
1 t-) the place where tho sheep was ki11,,1. The place
s about halfa mile from the prisoner's house.
kr. John Metcalfe, a farmer and innkeeper at Ripley,