The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-01 00:00:00

TALLOW.

This market is very steady, and prices have an upward
tendency. P. Y. C. on the spot is held at 50s 9d to 51s; and
for arrival, 45s to 45s Gd. Town Tallow is firm at 50s to
503 Gd net cash. The stock of Tallow in all hands is small.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Guildhall.)
The Court, after trying two cases of minor interest, ad-
journed until the next City sittings, after Easter Term.

COMMON PLEAS.--(THIS DAY.)
This being the last day of the London sittings, the Court
was engaged with common jury cases of no interest but to
the parties concerned.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.

The 161st sessions of this Court, and fifth during the
present Mayoralty, were opened this morning in presence of
the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Sir Chapman Marshall,
Alderman Hughes, and Sheriffs Challis and Kennard, and the
Learned Recorder of the City of London.
Prom the short time which had elapsed since the last
sessions, the calendar was necessarily light; it contained the
names of no more than 104 persons committed to take their
trial on the present occasion, but some of—these for crimes
of rather grave character. -7 ,
The RECORDER, when the grand jury had been chosen and
' sworn in, proceeded as usual to deliver his charge. He said
the calendar contained a list of persons amounting to 104
but .he was given to understand that that number had been
already greatly augmented by commitments on Saturday
last, and he believed it very probable that a considerable
addition would be made to that number in the course of their
attendance there. There were a number of the cases com-
mitted for trial which were of grave importance and
serious aspect, but in general they were simple
in the facts, and it did not appear to him after reading over
the depositions that they were at all likely to involve any
questions of law. But if contrary to his expectation, such
difficulties should arise, the Court, as usual, would readily
furnish the grand jury with the assistance which the cir-
cumstances might appear to require; yet considering the de-
positions which had been submitted to him, with one excep-
tion, he did not think the cases called for any lengthened ob-
servations on his part. There were such crimes in the calendar
as cutting and wounding, using violence towards children
under ten years of age, and other offences of like serious
nature; but still the question whether these cases ought to
be submitted to further investigation depended upon the
evidence, whether that was such as to support the charge;
and in exercising their judgment on that. they would merely
have to consider whether the evidence was left unanswered
and unexplained, for in that case they would have to send it
for further inquiry before the petit jury. But, on the other
hand, if the case on the part of the prosecutor did not
warrant them in giving the evidence their credit;
if it betrayed any sinister motive on the part of
the person promoting the charge, it became the
duty of the grand jury to shelter the person committed
from further proceedings on that charge. There was, how-
ever, one case on which he felt it his duty to make a few
remarks, because it was a case a little out of the ordinary
character, and one where, though the facts were of the
clearest description, some considerations perhaps beyond
them were involved. It was not his duty to say what was
the proper effect of the evidence which appeared on the de-
positions, but it might be necessary to lay before them such
observations as be thought might enable them to come to
the conclusion whether they ought to send the case for
further inquiry. He alluded to the charge of manslaughter
in the administering of medicine. Now that was a case in
which a distinction had been laid down in law, that if a
physician or surgeon should in the proper discharge of his
vocation administer medicines or potions, and death should
fallow, that that was not manslaughter or murder, but a
misadventure. But he felt it necessary to observe another
distinction which had been taken in cases of this nature, viz.,
between a licensed member of the profession, a regular phy-
sician or surgeon, and a person not in possession of this