The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-25 00:00:00

WOOL.

The public sales of wool, at which about 33,000 bales
will be brought forward, commenced on Thursday. Up
to the present time the biddings have been extremely
inactive, owing to the seal city of money, and prices
have receded Id per lb, The imports, last week, con-
sisted of 168 bales from Taganrog, 300 ditto from Ham-
burgh, and 700 ditto from Launceston. Privately the de-
mand is in a very dull state, and to effect sales, lower
rates must be submitted to.

The continued pressure
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upLOW.on the money-market, and
the accumulation of the stock of Tallow in first hands—
a proof of the increased activity amongst the large
shipping houses at St. Petersburgh—have had a very
depressing influence upon the demand for all kinds of
Tallow since Monday last, and prices, both on the spot
and for forward delivery, have declined fully Is 6,1 per
cwt. Credit is now almost wholly out of the question,
and until confidence is restored, Tallow is likely to
prove a heavy article. P. Y. C. on the spot is 44s 6d
to 455, and for delivery, 44s to 444 6d per cwt. Town
is 45s 6d to 46s net cash. Rough Fat, 2s lid per 81bs.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
The twelfth session of the present mayoralty was
opened this morning by the Right Honourable the
Lord Mayor, Alderman Hooper (the Lord Mayor
elect), Sir Chapman Marshall, and the new Sheriffs,
Messrs. Cubitt and Hill.

The calendar contains a list of 247 cases, some of
them of a very serious nature.
The grand jury having been sworn,
The Learned RECORDER proceeded to deliver his
charge. The number of prisoners appearing on the
calendar amounted to 247. There was no doubt that
a considerable addition would be made to that number
during the progress of their labours. Among the
cases which would be brought before their notice
were cases of murder, rape, and robbery, several
cases of manslaughter, of cutting, wounding, and
other serious offences. The great point for the con-
sideration of the grand jury would be to decide
whether there were sufficient evidence adduced to
ju,tify any further inquiry being proceeded with.
With respect to the two charges of murder, the great
point for them to decide was, whether the fact of the
killing, and of course whether the party who stood
charged with that crime, was the party against
whom sufficient evidence could be adduced.
There were other circumstances to be considered
such as the mental condition of the party who stood
charged, and also whether the crime was committed
under the influence of passion or serious provocation,
because the law always presumed that the act of
killing had been committed in malice, in the absence
of proof to the contrary. If the jury considered that
the party deceased had come to his death by violence,
it would then be their duty to return a true bill, in
order that the case might be further inquired into.
Whether the case should eventually turn out upon
inquiry to be of a lower class, such as manslaughter
or homicide, would be a point for the petit jury to
decide. One of the cases of rape, which would come
under their notice, was of a peculiar character as there
were two persons charged with committing the act.
In such a case the juries were less likely to
be influenced in their decision by the opinion that
the female might have resisted wherethere was
only one person who committed the offence, be-
cause when assaulted by two persons combined
together for the acomplishment of the crime resistance
would be 4 ineffectual. The crime of rape was for-
merly punishable by death, but an alteration had of
late been made in the law. It would be the duty of
the grand jury, as in the case of murder, to satisfy
themselves that there was sufficient evidence to war-
rant a further inquiry, and in such cases to return a
true hill. There were cases of cutting and wounding
with intent to do bodily harm, and there was one case
of shooting with the same intent. There were sixty-
eight cases of ordinary larceny, sixteen of larceny
from the dwelling-house, nineteen of larceny from the
person, and sixty-one of larcennyishnen
servants.byit the cases
He
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deeply lamented that lenient punishment
of larceny by servants did not accomplish the object
which the Legislature had in view ; for the crime
had of late years been considerably on the in-
crease. It often happened that patties who