The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-05 00:00:00

CRIMINAL' COURT.-(TIIIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
`Them sessions, the sixth of the present Mayoralty,
commenced to-day before the Recorder, Aldermen Gibbs,
fSir Chapman Marshall, and Sidney, the Sheriffs, Sec.
According teo the calendar as at present issued, there
are 219 prisoners for trial. Among the charges there
is one for mule-ter, one for child-stealing, seven for bur-
glary, twenty for unlawfully uttering counterfeit coin,
cutting and with intent, six; embezzlement, seven; for-
gery and uttering forged instruments, nine; housebreak-
ing and larceny, three; larceny, sixty-nine; larceny in
a dwelling-house, ten; larceny from the person, twenty-
four; larceny of servants, thirty-eight; letter-stealing,
one; manslaughter, two; misdemeanors, nine; receiving
stolen goods, four; roobery, four; and robbery and felo•
niously assaulting with intent, one.
The grand jury having been chosen and sworn,
The Reconn-na proceeded to deliver his charge to
them. He said that the calendar contained a list of
219 e,resoneren a
number which it was to be apprehended
would be
'-ionniderably augmented in the course of the
week, need before the termination of the labours of the
grand 'pry. The district over which the judgment of that
Cnlnrt extended comprehending the whole of the county
fte Middlesex, the city and county of London, and
part of the counties of Essex. Surrey, and Kent, was
considered to contain a population approaching to nearly
two millions. Within that di: t let the extremes of
wealth and poverty co-existed, and with them all the
temptatiems to vice and crime which multitudes pent up
in cremded habitations retired from view, real and
unsatisfied wants, evil examples, and uninstructed and
uneducated friends, could produce. It was, therefore, no
=natter of astonishment that the grand jury of the
'Metropolitan district should be assembled twelve times
in each year, and occupied a week at a time in the pre-
liminary investigation of charges of every description
in the trials of °Maces of every kind, and that the
Court should also be occupied in the trial of charges of
every degree of enormity. The calendar presented
accordingly from session to session as in
the present instance, cases of murder, man-
alanghter, rape, robbery, cutting and wounding,
child-stealing, forgery of written instruments,
'offences relating to the coin, larceny of every descripths
from the person, by servants, in the dwelling-house, and
of every shade and degree of distinction, and upon those
charges the grand jury were required to institute a pro-
liminary inquiry, to ascertain whether, upon the shewing
of the prwsecutor and his witnesses, there was such a
prima facie case made as that it should be considered
fitting that the party accused should be put upon his
trial. There were those who had not hesitated to affirm
that the functions of a grand jury might be safely dis-
pensed with ; that this element in the administration of
public justice, the intervention of the country gentleman,
collected from the different parts of the country,might be
safely- excluded from the present system, and tribunals
erected to dispense among the people the criminal law of
the country. He hoped and trusted that no grand
jury, summoned for the discharge cf its high
and important duties would effect so little in furtherance
of the objects for which grand juries were instituted as
to enceurame an opinion of its inutility to gain ground,
*tad to lead men's minds to the conclusion that the hur-
ried and preliminary inquiry conducted before the com-
mitting magistrate would he a sufficient warrant to place
any party accused at once upon his trial. The duties of
the grand jury in many cases were undoubtedly plain
and simple, and frequently imposed upon tht m the ne-
cessity of at once remitting the case from their investi-
gation to that of the petty jury ; but in all cases their
knowledge of the world was brought to beer upon the
circumstances of ouch individual case, upon the working
of the system of the laws of the country, as applied to
adults, as applied to juvenile offenders ; capital and
secondary punishments ; transportation, imprison-
ment, their modes, their uses and abuses ;
The presentments of grand juries were not confined to
bills found or ignored ; the prevention of crime, as well
as its punishment, entered into their humane and en-
lightened consideration ; their attention was directed
from time to time to the want and absence of systematic
education and restraint of the young in parochial dis-
tricts, the want of temporary homes, and occupied hours
of children, to the fact that many parents were called
away to their daily lebour, the only means of subsistence
for their families, and grand juries contrasted the severity
of punishment to which the young were liable with the
temptations to which they were exposed. The neglect
of parents might bee in part remedied by providing
education, restraint, and discipline to the children of
those parents during the hours of their necessary
absence and erni-loyment from home, and those asylums
provided the parents and guardians might be fairly called
upon to give security for the good behaviour of the
members of their families ; on the same principle ma-
gistrates might be empowered to dismiss the charge of
a first or trivial offence, on the security of a master,
friend, or parent for the good behaviour of a juvenile
offender. Sentences might be respited on the same
conditions, and a preventive system might be made to
supersede, what to strict minds might now appear a
harsh or vindictive system, disproportionate to the moral
guilt and age of the offender. These were, however,
considerations to which the Legislature must then be
fully alive, and the great secondary punishments now
hitherto adopted attended, according to circumstances,
with complete success or signal failure ; transportation,
with all the modifications of which it was susceptible,
penal or reformatory, must be inquired into, acted upon
ly experience, and dealt with as the most comprehensive
scheme, and the greatest experiments for good or for
evil, as it effected the objects of punishment or reform,
and the character and the interests of this great country
and her colonial empire. The cases about to be brought
before the grand jury, though many of them bore a serious
aspect, yet, upon a careful perusal of the depositions,
did not, in his opinion, present any difficulty in point of
law, or in the application of the law to the facts disclosed.
There was a charge of murder, and also one of rape,
which would require to be put in the course of invests-
gation before the petty jury, and in order to avoid pre-
judice, he would confine himself to that observation as
regarded those cases. With regard to the charge of
child-stealing, that crime was defined and punishable
under the provisions of the 9th of George IV. Under
that statute the offence was punishable either by trans-
portation or imprisonment. In the case of cutting and
wounding, the instrument used, the act whether pre-
meditated or otherwise, the apparent provocation,
were all important ingredients in considering this case,
the intent being the gist of the charge constituting the
imputed felony. There were also several charges in the
calendar affecting the coin of the realm, others of obtain-
ing money under Pale pretences, and of uttering forged
instruments, all of which it was the duty of the grand
jury to deal with as they thought right. The cases of
larceny were numerous. but required no particular re-
mark from him. The Learned Judge, after shortly al-
luding to several other cases in the calendar, remitted
the grand jury to the discharge of their duties, observing
that if in any of the cases they found any unexpected
difficulty, the Court would render them any assistance
they might require.
The Court then proceeded to swear in the petty jury.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A few days ago, a poor man, named Crowley, appeared
at this Court as complainant against a ruffian named
Chambers, who had broken his jaw. The case was fully
proved against the prisoner to be one of a most savage
and brutal description, and the latter was ordered to pay
a fine of 21. 103. to the Queen, the Magistrate, however,
suggesting to the complainant that it would not, perhaps,
be imprudent, if he were to petition 'Sir George Grey
upon the subject. Chambers took the hint, and this
morning he presented himielf at the office with an answer
to his petition from the Home Secretary, flir ecti rvr the
sitting Magistrate to hand over to the applicant (Crow-
ley), who is 'still suffering acutely from the injuries he
received, the amount his assailant was mulct in, viz.,
21. lOs.

Crowley, who appears to be a quiet inoffensive man,
having received the money awarded to him, made his
grateful acknowledgments, and v ithdrew.

THE REVENUE.—The accoun's of the quarter's
revenue will not be made up until to-night. We are
glad to learn that they will exhibit a highly satisfactory
result. The Customs will show a considerable increase
over the corresponding quarter of last year. This pros-
perous condition of the Customs duties is the more
gratifying when we take into account that no part of
the amount is made up of duties on the importation of
foreign corn, which formed so large a portion of the
revenue of the quarter ending the sth of January last,
during which quarter the 4s. duty, the lowest in the
reduced sliding scale, was in full operation. The present
flourishing condition of the Customs revenue is at once
the best indication of tae healthy condition of our
foreign commerce, and the most conclusive testimony in
favour of the extensive reductions made to carry out the
principles of free trade. The Excise, too, holds its
ground, proving that, in spite of the partial distress and
destitution that prevail, and the dearness of so many
articles of necessary use and consumption, there is no
diminution of employment, and that the working classes
are still in a condition to indulge in excisable articles.
The Property-tax shows no material alteration. These
are the great sources of income, and are all in a satis-
factory state. The Stamp Duties, too, prove that trade
is active, although they want the large railway transac-
tions of last yaar. The total amount of the receipts
for the year ending the sth of April, 1847, will afford
a very gratifying comparison with the year ending
April 5, 1846, or with any recent annual returns.—
Observer.
JENNY LIND AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—After a
great deal of coaxing and coercion, Jenny Lind arrived
aafely on the stage of Drury-lane Theatre on Friday
evening, to the great delight of the manager, who had
been under serious apprehensions that " Jenny" would
not have fulfilled her contract with him, or that she
might have walked off to another establishment. Our
r feeders must not suppose we refer to the famed Swedish
nightingale. The " Jenny Lind" in question is the
female elephant of Mr. Hughes's mammoth establish-
ment, who has acquired that name in cons( quence of the
reluctance her elephartiee majesty displayed for some
days past to enter the theatre. All the delicacies " Jsrmy
Lind" loved so well were tried in turn to induce her to
follow the male, who runs about the theatre, up and
down platforms, like a kitten ; but after exhausting a
granary in corn and a refinery in sugar, the suaviter in
mode was abandoned for the jorlibr in re, and by break-
ing through a window in Little Russell street, " Jenny
Lind," after some pointed remarks from the keeper,
walked on the boards with great dignity, to make her
daut this evening.
NEW TowNs.—A contract for one thousand houses
has lately been entered into, to be built at Stratford,
chiefly for the convenience of persons in the employment
of the Ea,qern Counties Railer y, who intend to remove
tsheir ""I+sh.'ris and manufactories there, and to call it
trut urn INew w, n. Pr, parations arc ztio iicilig mal/41e
tr the erection of a hirge number ot houses on an eligible
site near the next station on the line at Ilford, to which
the name of llford-on-Railway will be given.

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED.)
DOUGLAS JERROLD' S.
The " History of St. Giles and St. James" now
rapidly approaches a conclusion. In the chapter
which concludes the present number of the Magazine
the two heroes are again brought together, both pri-
soners on capital charges. St. James recognises St.
Giles, and promises him his protection. " I tell you,
St. Giles," says the young Lord, to his fellow-pri-
soner, " you shall still find friends in my family ;
your life shall still be spared."
" And what for, my lord ? To be shipped off again—
to be chained and worked worse than a beast ; to
have every bit of manhood crushed ; to have no use for
thought but to think curses. No, my lord.! Fate's
against me. I was sent into the world to be made, as
hey call it, an example of; and the sooner its all over
the better. I was born and suckled a thief, I was
whipped, imprisoned, transported, for a thief ; and
something better grew up in me, and I resolved to turn
upon the world a new face. I was determined. come
what would, to live honestly, or die in a ditch for it.
Well ; the world wouldn't have it. The world seemed
to sneer and laugh at me for the conceit of the thing.
I've been (lodged and dodged by the devil, that first sold
me ; I've tried to defy him ; but, as I say, fate's against
me, and it's no use. I look out:upon the world, end I
only see one place—one little piece of ground—where
there's rest for such as I am ; and where mercy may be
shown to them as truly repent. I trust to get from God
what man denies me.'
"Nay, poor fellow—
" Beg your pardon, my Lord," said I:,:histle, putting
his head in at the door, " but the post-chaise is come,
and—it's only a form—but we must drive to Kingston,
to the magistrate's."
" I am quite ready," said St. James, taking his hat.
" And your other prisoner?"
" We've got a cart for him," answered Whistle.
" Not so," said St. James, " we'll even ride together."
" Why, your lordship would never so condescend—
never so demean yourself—"
" Get in," said St. James, opening the chaise, door, and
urging St. Giles, who reluctantly entered the vehicle.
"There is no condescension for such villany as mine."
"All right," said Whistle, mounting outside; "all
right—to Kingston." And St. James the homicide, and
St. Giles the horse-stealer, were, in close companionship
of guilt, driven to the magistrate's, on their way to the
county gaol.
" The Dreamer and Worker " is likewise continued,
and the Bth chapter, with which this number opens,
is admirable. We return to the worker, Harding, and
find him employed in Portsmouth Dockyard, where
we are introduced to one of the escaped from the
wreck ; Mr. John Downs, brickmaker, Stourbridge—
a sturdy practical utilitarian, who delights to stand
up for his rights, and has a hatred fur police and
spies. The description of the block machinery, the
anchor forges, the carriage building, the ship-
building, are very graphic—so clear and so
understandable, that the various processes
described are distinctly seen by the mind's eye. This
is an admirable chapter. We have a graceful poem
by Mrs. Acton Tindal, on the visit of Charles H. of
Spain, to the Council Chambef of his ancestors, en-
titled " The Visit to the Tomb," and in his " Heads
and Tails of Families," Paul Bell is for once not
cynical. He gives us a religious subject, in the
person of the Rev. Mr. Vavasour, a pious, humble,
actively charitable, controversy hating, truly Chris-
tian curate, who, upon 1001. a-year, does more good
than many a bloated pluralist upon 1,0001. " Cob-
den on the Continent," is the title of an article by
Angus B. Reach, from which we extract the follow-
ing eulogium on the career of the greatest English-
man of our own times—may we not say, notwith-
standing the glories of Napoleon and Wellington,
and the greater because bloodless glories of O'Con-
nell, the greatest man of his age—the only one of
our days whom Providence has called to execute a
world-wide mission, who has understood and obeyed
the call—Richard Cobden.
" Richard Cobden was a commercial traveller once—
and although the world may nat at first blush think it—
Richard Cobden is a commercial traveller still. Some-
times on the road—sometimes on the rail—an active
emissary of Msnchester ; ho distributed his patterns—
collected his debts—opened up new connexions—con-
solidated old ones—wrote his daily bulletin of the state
of trade—the tightness of money or the glut of stock—
to the city of the tall chimneys—and then officiated as
Mr. Chair, or Mr. Vice, in that hastily-gobbled dinner,
which commercial gentlemen always seem to hurry over
as a piece of disagreeable necessity, to be got through
with as quickly as possible.
" And Richard Cobden is a commercial traveller still.
True, he shows no patterns—takes no order—duns no
customer—represents no firm. His progress is not now
from Manchester to Liverpool, or from Nottingham to
Derby. His ever shifting habitation is no longer that
big, side-boarded, dreary, bookless, commercial room.
He flieth not from shop to shop—signing bills—writing
receipts—vaunting a new design in calicos—predicting a
rise in cotton. And still, we repeat, lie is a commercial
traveller.
" Yes—the greatest—the most remarkable traveller
the world has ever seen. Europe is his district—nations
distributesb ot ofpavt patterns—he mighty
newt principles—he
designs
which
are his customers—the memoirs of the League fill his
ndso—ahrieneds—ealhse
exhibitsi
shake the polity of empires—ho predicts universal com-
mercial interchange—no land, no city, which he has not
filled with the fame and the credit of his great consti-
tuent, the mighty firm of Free Trade, throned in the
realms of England.
" Richard Cobden, literally the commercial traveller—
and Richard Cobden, figuratively the commercial travel-
ler I How vast the leap ! The Mister Cobden who
derived his little weight from his calico-making consti-
tuents—whose name circulated but amongst his own
little class—the knight-errants of the Ledger—whose
talk was naturally of invoices and bills of parcels—who
was cared for but by mottled-faced landlords and grimy
bootses—in fact, Mr. R. Cobden, Bagman.
" Study that picture first—then this.
" Richard Cobden, the wide world known—the leader
of the greatest mercantile confederacy man has ever seen
—the wielder of a power the most pacific—the most
pliable—but the most overwhelming probably ever
guided by one governing spirit—Richard Cobden who
revolutionised an empire—who will revolutionise the
world, and who did it without the glitter of a bayonet or
the crack of a musket—Richard Cobden who prostrated
the proudest oligarchy of Europe—who ruled the man
who ruled the Legislature which ruled the empire—
Richard Cobden, at once the missionary—the champion
—the advocate—the embodyment of Free Trade—strid-
ing in his triumph over Europe—everywhere welcomed—
every where honoured—his health toasted—his name,
his principles, and his deeds proclaimed in every
langusge of civilisation—everywhere sowing the
good seed—everywhere telling Oe good tidings-
-e,verywhere pointing out how protection clogs men's
progress—how it isolates them and makes them enemies
—how, to the eye of mercantile genius, customhouses
show like frowning ramparts, and tariffs like standing
armies.
" 'Tis a wondrous, a promising, a happy. phenomenon,
the tour of Richard Cohlen. It is greater than ever was
monarch's progress—will exercise more power than ever
did conqueror's march. He sets people thinking. He
leaves little Leagues behind him—be consecrates, so to
speak, local Villierses, and Brights, and Foxes. He
sets many balls rolling. Festal banquets everywhere
await him—oh, may they be the forerunners of that
great festal banquet which the world shall sit down to,
when, like the guests at a picnic, every nation shall
bring its share to the setting forth of the table—one
offering bread—another wine—a pastoral land its meat
—a manufacturing its steel, wherewith to crave the
viands !
"Free trade I—the word is now a household one in
many tongues—the idea will soon become as familiar,
and then will it be translated into action."

HOOD'S MAGAZINE.

Another beautiful calling from a bye-gone and
forgotten poet—Mickle—is contained in the April
number of Hood. For its insertion the editor de-
serves our acknowledgments. " 'Hengist and Mey "
is the ballad, an incident dating in the Saxon days
when good King Arthur ruled the
_land. Many of
the verses possess considerable beauty. The following

is singular :
" His hair as black as raven's wing ;
His skin—as Christmas snow ;
His cheeks outvie the blush of mor❑ ;
His lips like rose-buds glow."
We say the verse is singular, because in it we re
cognize a suspicious similarity to a much more exqui
site description by Chatterton. If our memory serves
us rightly, the lines of Chatterton run thus :
"Black his hair as the winter night,
White his skin as the winter snow,
Red his cheek as the morning light,
Cold he lies in the grave below !"
Is there plagiarism in this similarity, or is it merely
an accidental similitude ? Of metrical pieces the
magazine has no defficiency ; among others there is a
trifle addressed to a Postman by Linnaeus Banks ;
an absurd contribution about a Mrs. Dobson,
written by some anonymous prson who pen-
ned a few months back an elegy to Thomas
Ilood ; a delicious sonnet culltd from the
poems of Lord Surrey, and the April sonnet by
Jones, which latter sonnet is again cruelly and ruth-
lessly murdered in cold blood. The poem on Spring,
by the same author, is charmingly conceived and
daintily worded. Speaking to Spring and of Sum-
mer, the poet says—
" Sind music to.her ears from bill and d3ll,
From feather'd minstrels and from lowing trine,
From flecks responsive to the tinkling bell,
From murmuring brooks, as whence the boughs

entwine,
Mel' fl;',11 niethel which the transient
hlahetle concordant.
Among the prose contributions are a continuation
of "Blanche Neville ;" a series of historical accounts