The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-24 00:00:00

W'ZITECITAPEL.

Our market was excessively heavy, at a general
aocline of 2d per Sibs. Beef from 2s 2d to 3s 4d;
Matton, 23 8d to 3s 103; Veal, 2s 103 to 3s Gd; and
Pork, 3s to 4s per Sibs by the carcase.

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

Chief Baron Pollock and Mr. Justice Cresawell took
their' seats on the bench at ten o'clock.
TBEE TRIAL or TIIE MA.NNINGS.-012 the application
of Mr. Clarkson, the trial of the Mannings was fixed
for to-morrow.
TIIE MURDER AT CLAPHAM.
James Weston, aged 37, described as a labourer, was
indieted.for the wilful murder of Maria, his wife, and
Lis child Maria Elizabeth Weston. The prisoner gazed
vacantly about the court, aad then lapsed into an ap-
parent state of listlessness.
Mr. BODKIN said, in conformity with the proviiiions
of the 2d and 3d Victoria, he proposed that the jury
ahould inquire into the present state of mind cat the ac-
cused, as there was the strongest reason to believe that,
at the time of the commission of the offence imputed to
Inn, and at the present time, he was labouring under
the influence of insanity, and, therefore, not iu a state
of mind to plead to the indictment.
Mr. Gilbert M`Murdo, the surgeon to the prison of
I\Tewgate, was then called and deposed that he had re-
pe,todly seen the prisoner during the last week or so,
and had had ample opportunities to judge of the state
of his mind. The prisoner was decidedly of unsound
mind, and not in a fit state to plead.
Chief Baron POLLOCK—HO is not in a state to under-
stand the nature of the offence with which he is charged.
Witness—No, my Lord; he does not think he com-
mitted the deed. lie thinks the doctor committed it. In-
deed, he thinks that I did it; and he has had no lucid
interval.

The jury immediately found that the accused was not
in a sane state of mind, and, therefore, not fit to plead.
The accused, who seemed to be perfectly unconscious
of the whole proceedings, was then removed.
THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT DULWICH.

Stephen Alfred Jordan, alias Dorland, 17, described as
a painter, was indict, d for feloniously cutting and wound-
ing Sarah Francis Ewings with intent to murder her.
The prisoner is rather a good-looking youth, with a bold
conceited face. _ _ _

Mr. BODKIN very briefly stated the case to the
jury. It appeared, he said, that the prisoner had
paid the prosecutrix attention for some time, and that
some talk had taken place about their getting mar-
ried, but unfortunately before the ceremony was con-
summated she became pregnant by him, and was so at
that moment. Becoming alarmed at her state, and not
having seen the prisoner for about a fortnight, she wrote
to him on Sunday, the 16th of September, and posted
the letter on the following day, upbraiding him with
neglect, and saying if she did not hear from him by the
following Thursday that she should communicate her
ondition by letter to her grandfather and grandmother.
.
prisoner then wrote to her at her lodgings in
Francis-street, Nevviogtou, asking her to meet him on
the Thursday, at eight o'clock, at Brixton Church. She
did so, and walked with hint to Dulwich, a here they en-
tered a wood, he having told her that was the neatest
way to Croydon, whcre-he said he had taken a lodging
i or her. The prisoner, the path being very narrow, led
t ',te girl by the hand, telling her not to be frightened.
t.a then listened attentively, put his arm round her neck,
k lased her repeatedly, and cut her threat with a razor. A
alent struggle took place between them; he threw
he r down, struck her about the face with the
att tt-end of a pistol, and then left her.
A bonnet, two white pocket-handkerchiefs saturated
Rit ,h blood, some articles of female apparel, the bl.ale
ant'. handle of a razor which had been broken in the
atrt iggle, were found in the wood. In the letter which
Ulu prisoner sent the girl, ho said, " Don't come if you
don' 't bring this letter with you. Don't tell Mrs. Chap-
man (where she lodged) where you are going to." When
a,he met him, he asked her if she was well, and if she
had brought this letter, to which she replied in the
atfirraative and gave it him. He said he had brought
pens, ink, and paper, and that she must write to Mrs.
Chapman and tell her that she should hear from her in
a day or two, and also one to himself, saying she should
see him in a few days. She wrote the letters on a book
which he had with him and gave them to hire. Ile
then asked her how she came to send him such a threat-
ening letter, and if she meant it. She replied she did not,
and only
wrote it to frighten him, and that he was not
to say any more about it. It would be for the jury to
say, looking at these facts, whether the prisoner was
guilty of the offence imputed to him.
Sarah Frances Ewing was then called and detailed the
facts narrated above. The unfortunate creature was
Could scarcely articulate, and looked pale and emaciated.
The evidence of the person to whose house the girl
"made her way after the outrage, the surgeon, and the

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police officer who took the prisoner into custody, to
whom he said, he was at Dulwich the preceding
W :Jl(i
when told of th =rape, exeLin.r.d, r:t re
about it,' having L.,ia gven, and the 1..z.,r pr,ved to
have belonged to the prisoner, that a pistol had been
in his possession shortly before the occurrence,
The prisoner merely sAid, in his defence, that he did
not tell the girl to go to the registrar's in order to make
the necessary preparations for their wedding, as she had
said. She wanted him to come and see her at her lodg-
ings, on the 25th of July, but he :lid no; go until the
28th. lie went three or four times aft(r, and when he
found the state she was in he had nothing mere to do
with her; she could not have been pregnant by him,
as he did not become acquainted with her until July.
She repeatedly sent him threatening letters, Vi hich were
the cause of quarrels whenever they met. He did nut
cause her to write the letters referred to.

Mr. Justice CRESSWELL carefully summed up the e‘i-
dence and explained the law to the jury—who found the
prisoner Guilty.
Sentence deferrcd.

NEW COURT

(Before the COMMON SERGEANT and Mr. Aldt-rman

FINNIS )
James Green alias Wei,tworth was indicted for forging
a promissory note for 601.
It appeared that in August last Mr. Henry Reynolds,
a surgeon, of Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, had a
house to dispose of in Saville-row, Piccadilly, and that
the prisoner applied to him to become tenant of it.
Being anxious to know what sort of a person he was, be
put some inquiries to him, and received the following
particulars:—That he had been engaged for the last two
years in a railway survey in the East Indies, the plans
of which he would show to him, but they had been lost
or mislaid ; that his name was Wentworth, and that he
was related to the Fitz william family; that he was con-
nected with the Northern Counties Coal Company, and
had been making a survey of' the mines at Sunderland;
that he was related to Mr. Reynold,' neighbour, Lady
Augusta Wentworth, and also to Mr. Godfrey Went-
worth, of Woodley Park, Sheffield. Upon the faith of
these representations, and having found that
Mr. G.c.dfrey Wentworth was a gentleman well
known in the City, the prisoner was allowed
to have possession of the house, and shortly
afterwards he gave Mr. Reynolds the promissory note
which formed the subject of the indictment, sayinEa, that
Mr. Glyn and the other City bankers were well ac-
quainted with him, and would readily discount it. The
note was signed "J. Wentworth." It appeared that
the prisoner had been convicted at the Old Bailey, under
the name of Green; and imtead of bring engaged in a
survey in India for two years, he seas surveying fer that
period the walls of Coldbath-fields Prison, into which he
had been eoi,signed as an inmate. So well did the pri
soner play his part that he managed to insinuate him-
self into the friendship of Mr. Reynolds, and bad more
than once been invited as a guest to his house, where he
professed to take great interest in the principles of
heinceopathy as laid down by Mr. Reynolds.
The defence was that there was no forgery, inasmuch
as the prisoner had legally changed the name
of Green to that of Wentworth, and it was proved that,
after leaving prison in May last, he passed as Mr. Went-
worth, and he did not take the house from Mr. Reynolds
until August following.
The COM3I3N SERGEANT having retired to consult Mr.
Justice Cresswell upon this point, said his Lordship
thought there might have been same doubt upon the
subject if the prisoner had simply signed the name
Wentworth, without making any representation ; but
the fact of stating that he was related to families and
persons with whom he was in no way connected removed
all doubt as to the act, under such circumstances, con-
stituting a forgery, for his intention was to defraud.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and
The COMMON SERGEAPIT sentenced him to transpor-
tation for fifteen yearn, intimating that he would respite
the sentence if the judges upon the rota thought the
case was a proper one for an appeal to the court above.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(B:: ore the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.)

Mary Ann Thomas, aged 33, was indicted for stealing
a gown, valued at 55., the property of Mr. ;Jules Vogues,
of the Restaurant Franais. in Coventry-street, Hay-
market, in his dwelling-house.
The prosecutor stated that on the morning of the 13th
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ast., being on the first floor, he heard some one coming
down stairs from the rcoms above, and looking out he
saw the prisoner passing through the private door into
the street. He pursued and overtook her, and the gown
which he produced and identified, was found under her
shawl.

The jury found her Guilty, when
The ASSISTANT-JUDfin said this was a most remark-
able ease. The prisoner had been convicted, in July,
1847, of stealing in a dwelling-house; in Nov., 1847, of
the same offence; again in Feb., 1848; and in August,
1848, she was sent to prison tor ten days for having
been found in a dwelling-house, with an illegal intent.
Again, in Oct. she was sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment, having also, on a previous occasion, under-
gone twelve months' imprisonment under a sentence
passed at the Central Criminal Court, for felony. He
should endeavour that those cases should be looked into,
for it was monstrous that such people as the prisoner
should bo allowed to remain in the country.

BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.)
OBTAINING A SITUATION BY MEANS OF A FALSE
CBARACTER.-A respectably-attired young man, named
Hsnry Crozier, was charged with having obtained a situ-
ation as grocer's assistant by means of a false character.
Mr. Lord appeared for the complainant, Mr. Scn-
tence;grocer, of Clare-market, and stated that, some time
ago, the defendant applied to his client for a situation,
stating that he had last lived with Mr. William Webb, a
grocer in Blaekfriars-road, who had recently commenced
business at Newport, in Monmouthshire. Ho had been
into the country as Mr. Webb's assistant, but not liking
Newport, he had quitted his service in the hope of ob-
taining another situation in town. Mr. Sentence wrote
to Mr. Webb for the defendant's character, and received
a communication in reply, to the effect that what the
prisoner had stated was correct, and that he was a sober,
honest, respectable, industrious man. Upon the faith of
this character Mr. Sentence took the defendant into his
service, but he had since discovered that the defendant
was not the character he had been represented, while the
party to whom he had referred in Newport was William
Webb Crozier, his own brother. Mr. Lord added that
ho was not is a position to prove these facts now, but
he would produce the letter he had referred to, ' and
solicit a remand, to enable the complainant to obtain
more conclusive evidence of the defendant's past pro-
ceedings.

Mr.-HENRY said he could receive no evidence that was
not of a legpl character, and before he could allow the
letter to be used the handwriting must be proved in the
usual way.
Mr. Lircl had only been instructed within the last
few minutes, and was not in a position to give that evi-
dence; but if the defendant were remanded it could be
procured.
Mr. HENRY presumed the defendant was charged
under the 4th section of the 32d George 111., for having
offered himself as a servant, stating that he had pre-
viously lived in another service?—Mr. Lord replied in
the affirm:tive.

Mr. HENRY said that was not an indictable offence,
and the proper course would have been to apply to a
magiArate, who had power to adjudicate in the matter
summarily, for a stimmons or warrant against the de-
fendant. _ _

The Inspector informed his worship that when the
complainant gave the defendant into custody he told
him that-

Mr. HENRY, besides doubting whether the defendant
could be considered in the light of a servant, such as
that contemplated by the Act of Parliament, thought
the complainant had acted very improperly in giving the
defendant into custody without previously consulting his
solicitor. The chargepreferred atainst him was not only
not indictable, but did not come within the provisions
of the Police Act, and the inspector might have refused
the charge. Even had there been sufficient evidence
adduced against the defendant, he had no p 0,.% er to re-
mand him; but here there was no evidence at all against
him, and the defendant must be discharged,
The defendant was accordingly liberated.

COLONEL TuomPsort EraTomisED. The best
Englibh attender and the best in the whole House, is
Colonel Perronet Thompson, who, though now in the
67th year of his age and getting corpulent, and after
having served in the navy and army, and after being
taken prisoner at Buenos Ayres, and after being Go-
vernor of Sierra Leone, and after being ambassador and
interpreter to the Wahabces, and after writing books on
n nt, corn laws, banking, mathematics, and music, and
after representing Hull, and after being the unsuccessful
candidate for Preston in 1835, for Maidstone in 1837,
for Maryichone in 1838, for Manchester in 1839, and for
Cheltenham in 1841, and for Hull in ditto, and after
being; made a burgess of the town of Cuptr, does now
represent Bradford, and after all this during last session,
has contrived to be present and to vote at no fewer than
217 out of 219 dtvisions that have taken place—all
which shows that the capacity of bearing fatigue in-
creases with the exercise of that capacity, and that, as in
other arts, in the art of attending the House of Com-
mons, practice makes perfectness.—Fifeshire Journal.—
[There is a mistake in the above, for Colonel Thompson
was not absent at a division once during the session.
The two times referred to aro when ho was one of the
Tellers at the divisions.—ED. Sun.]
HACKNEY 130011.-RATE COLLECTION.--Yesterday
r. meeting of trustees of the poor was held to appoint an
additional collector. There were five candidates, and
theretultwas declared in favour of Mr. Francis Dalton.

The mind, no more than a child, should be trusted
out of leading-strings; with judgment to guide, arid
discretion to guard, if it does not attain happiness and
distinction, it will at least avoid misery tnd disgrace, to
which an unrestricted imagination and uncontrolled sen-
sibility will too often lead.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
FIYANCIAL REFOEM MELTINGS.—A series of
meetings on the subject of Financial Reform will shortly
be held in the notch of England and in Scotland. IL
will commence, we believe, with Newcastle-on-Tyne,
and include Berwick. on-Tweed, Edinburgh, Glasgow,
Dundee, and a second meeting iu Aberdeen. Mr. flume,
it is expected, will attend these held in Edinburgh and
Glasgow.
AtisTRIAN ATROCITIES.—A memorial to Lord
Palmerston, prepared by Eail Fitzwilliam, on the subject
of Austrian atrocities and Hungarian freedom, is now
' being circulated for signatures amongst the Peas and
Umbers of the House of Commons of the Liberal

party. It urges the Foreign Secretary to use every
means in his power to put a stop to the barbarities of
Haynau, and to restore to Hungary a constitutional
system. It has already been very numerously signed;
and will shortly be made public.