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

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY
The present week's arrival of English Wheat for our
market, coastwise, has amounted to 1,890 quarters,
mostly:from Essex. Very few fresh runs on offer in to-
day's market, yet owing to the small number of
buyers in attendance, the demand for all descriptions
Was in a very inactive state, at Monday's decline in the
quotations. The import of foreign Wheat has been
confined to 1,440 quarters. Notwithstanding that
the supply was small, the trade ruled heavy,
at barely stationary prices. In floating cargoes no sales
took place. With Barley, both English and foreign, we
were very scantily supplied. Malting parcels mostly
told at full prices ; but grinding and distilling qualities
ruled dull. Malt was heavy in the extreme at almost
nominal quotations. We had a very moderate show of
Oat samples. Most kinds a slow sale, but not cheaper.
Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Fluur as last advised.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat.

Barley. i Oats,

Malt,

Flour,

English
Bcotch..
Irish ....
Foreign

Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks
1,s(.10 2,430 900 2,010 1,070

1.0
--
--
5,600
1,440 25
35)

ZOILOITGIat BOP Ina.R.XET.
A portion of the Hop duty has been declared at
45,672/ 8s Bd. In that amount is included Sussex at
35,25019 s 6d, and Hants 6,6661 33 bid. As the amount
exceeds the previous estimate, our market is excessively
heavy, at drooping prices. New Mid and East Kent
pockets Si to 104 New Weald of Kent ditto, 61 to Si;
New Sussexl ditto, .51 to 61 10s; Farnhams, 101 lOs to
111; Yearling Kents, 31 lOs to 41 12s; Yearling Sussex,
21 16s to 4/ss.

WHITECNAPET.
decline market was excessively heavy, at a general
of 2d per 81138. Beef from 2s 2d to 3s 4d;
Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 10d; Veal, 2s 10.1 to 3s 6d; and
York, 3s to 4s per Sibs by the carcase.

CRIMINAL UOURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
Chief Baron Pollock and Mr. Justice Creswell took
their seats on the bench at ten o'clock.
THE TRIAL OF THE MANNING9.—OR the application
of Mr. Clarkson, the trial of the Monologs was fixed
for to- morrow.

THE MURDER AT CLAPHAM.
James Welton, aged 37, described as a labourer, was
indicted for the wilful murder of Maria, his wile, and
hie child *trim Elizabeth Weston. The prisoner gazed
lacautly about the court, and then lapsed into an ap-
parent state of listlessness.
Mr. BoBBIN said, in conformity with the provisions
of the 2d and 3i Victoria, he proposed that the jury
should inquire into the present state of mind of the ac-
cused, as there was the strongest reason to believe that,
tit the time of the commission of the offence imputed to
the influence of insanity, and, therefore, not in a state
of mind to plead to the indictment.
Gilbert M'Murdo, the surgeon to the prison of
'4eivgate, was then called and deposed that he had re-
peatvelly seen the
prisoner during the last week or so,
and had had ample opportunities to judge of the state
": his mind. The prisoner was decidedly of unsound
blind, and not in a fit state to plead.
Chief Baron POLLOCK—IIe 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. He 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 indicted 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
_lame talk had taken place about their getting mar-
lied, 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
beglect, and saying if she did not hear from him by the
following Thursday that she should communicate her
condition by letter to her grandfather and grandmother.
The prisoner then wrote to her at her lodgings in
Francis-street, Newington, asking her to meet him on
the Thursday, at eight o'clock, at Brixton Church. She
did so, and walked with him to Dulwich, where they en-
tered a wood, he having told her that was the nearest
Way to Croydon, where he said he had taken a lodging
the for her. The prisoner, the path being very narrow, led
Re girl by the hand, telling her not to be frightened.
then listened attentively, put his arm round her neck,
kissed her repeatedly, and cut her throat with a razor. A
yiolent struggle took place between them; he threw
her down, struck her about the face with the
butt-end of
A bonnet, two White
ticipocket-handkerchiefs saturated
with blood,
and handle of a razor cwahielfelln ale apparel, the blade
struggle, were found in the wood.ad,l, bnpeeotnnh,ebrloektteenr in the
the prisoner sent the girl, he said,
Yon- Don't tetllc;timre if you
don't bring this letter with
Man (where she lodged) where you are goin t s;' Vehaepn.
Chap-
she met him, he asked her if sheen a well, and if she
had brought this letter, to which she replied in the
affirmative and gave it him. Ile said he had brought
Pens, ink, and paper, and that she must write to Mrs. Chapman and tel 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 him. He
then asked her how she came to send him such a threat-
ehing letter, and if she meant it. She replied she did not,
tan(' only wrote it to frighten him, and that he was not
o say any more about it. It would be for the jury to
IIY, looking at these facts, whether the prisoner was
guilty of the offence imputed to him.
Sarah Frances Ewing was then called and detailed the
featsi narrated above. The unfortunate creature was
oo
4.1,d scarcely articulate, and looked pale and emaciated.
Ihe - • •
, enuence of the person to whose house the girl
"saga her way after the outrage, the surgeon, and the

T H E

police officer w,lO took the prisoner into custody, to
vioorn 7te siiid, he a .I),de.ieli the preceding ?et,
and that he : -I,:e about,
when told ut outrat4e, " In- re
abut it," nhvieg been given, anti i,h,:••• f4zor proved to
have belonged to the prisoner, and that a pis:ol had been
in his possession shortly before the- occurr-ceo,
The prisoner nit-rely said, in hi.; di Fence, that he did
not tell the girl to go to the registrz.r's in order to make
the necessary preparations for their weddipg, as she had
said. She wanted him to come and see her at her lodg-
ings, on the 25th of July, but he did not go until the
28th. He went three or four times after, and when he
found the state she was in he had nothing more 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, which were
the cause of quarrels whenever they met. He did not
cause her to write the letters referred to.

Mr. Justice CRESSWELL carefully sutnmed up the evi-
dence and explained the law to the jury—who found the
prisoner Guilty.

Sentence deferred.

NEW COURT

(Before the COMMON SERGEANT and Mr. Alderman
Frxeas.)
James Green alias Wentworth 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, he
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. Reynolde' 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. Godfrey 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, saying that
Mr. Glyn and the other City benkers 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 instead of being engaged in a
survey in India for two years, he was surveying for that
period the walls of Coldbatle-fields Prison, into which be
had been consigned as an inmate. So well did the pri
sorter play his part that he managed to insinuate him
self into the friendship of Mr. Reynolds. and had more
than once been invited as a guest to his house, where he
professed to take great interest in the principles of
hoecceopethy as hid down by Mr. Reynolds.
The defence was that there was no forgery, inasmuch
as the prisoner had legally changed tle 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 COMM, SERGEANT having retired to consult Mr.
Justice Cresswell upon this point, said his Lordship
thought there might have been some 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 SERGEANT sentenced him to transpor-
tation for fifteen years, 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.)

(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE.)
Mary Ann Thomas, aged 33, was indicted for stealing
a gown, valued at 55., the property of Mr. Jules Vagues,
of the Restaurant Frangais in Coventry. street, klay-
market, in his dwelling-house.
The prosecutor stated that on the morning of the 13th
inst., being on the first floor, he heard some one coming
down stairs from the rooms above, and looking out he
saw the prisoner passing through the private door into
the street. lie pursued and overtook her, and the gown
which ho produced and identified, was found under her
shawl.

The jury found her Guilty, when
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE 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 for 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. lie
should endeavour that those cases should be looked into,
for it was monstrous that such people as the prisoner
should be allowed to remain in the country.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
OBTAINING ♦ SITUATION BY MEANS OF A FALSE
CHARACTER.—A respecfably-attired young-man, named
Henry 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. Sen-
tence, grocer, of Clare-market, and stated that, some time
ago, the defendant applied to his clit nt for a situation,
swing that he had last lived with Mr. William Webb, a
grocer in Blackfriars•road, who had recently commenced
business at Newport, in Monmouthshire. He 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
he was not is a position to prove these facts now, but
ho 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 legal character, and before he could allow the
letter to be used the handwriting must be proved in the
usual way.
Mr. Lord 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 affirmative.

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

Tho 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 arainst 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 power to re-
raand him; but here there was no evidence at all against
him, and the defendant must be discharged,
The defendant was accordingly liberated.

COLONEL Tuomrsort ErITOMISED. The best
English attender and the best in the whole House, is
Colonel Perronet Thompson, whe, though now in the
G7th 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 Wahabees, and after writing books on
rent, corn laws, banking, mathematics, and music, and
after representing Hull, and after being the unsuccessful
candidata for Preston in 1835, far Maidstone in 1837,
for Marylebone in 1838, for Manchester in 1839, and for
Cheitenham in 1841, and for Hull i❑ ditto, and after
being made a burgess of the town of Cupar, 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 divisions 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.—Ftfeshire Journnl.—
[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 are when he was one of the
Tellers at the divisions.—En. Sun.]
HACKNEY POOR-RATE COLLECTION..--YeSterdily
a meeting of trustees of the poor was held to appoint an
additional collector. There were five candidates, and
the result was 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, and
discretion to guard, if it does not attain happiness and
distinction, it will at least avoid misery and disgrace, to
which an unrestricted imagination and uncontrolled sen-
sibility will too often lead.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
FINANCIAL RFFOEM MELTINGS.—A series of
meetings o❑ the subject of Financial Reform will shortly
be held in the north of England and in Scotland. It
will commence, we believe, with Newcastle-on-Tyne,
and include Berwick-or-Tweed, Edinburgh, Glasgow,
Dundee, and a second meeting in Aberdeen. Mr. Hume,
it is expected, will attend those held in Edinburgh and
Glasgow. _ _

AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES.—A memorial to Lord
Palmerston, prepared by Earl Fitzwilliam, on the subject
of Austrian atrocities and Hungarian freedom, is now
being circulated for signatures amongst the Peers and
Members 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 wade public.