The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-16 00:00:00

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Bristol and Gloucester ..
Buckinghamshire .. ..

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Ditto, Extension .. • • • • 2 •• • • ija ••••• • • • • •
Chester and Manchester .. 425. .... I tit dis
Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% .... ..
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 234 % %
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 514 3%..
Direct Northern .. 2% .. •••• • • • •
Dublin and Belfast Junction 10 .... 43%
Eastern Counties .. 141. M 5..... 22% 1,4 ......
Ditto New .. 81. 165....• ki 1)• •••• • • •

Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. % p.. 34 p
Ditto, York Extension .. 105..... 13 %..•• .. • • 1%
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 71% • • - • • 7131
Ditto % Shares .. 10 1631
Goole, Doncast., and &c. 425..... dis •• .. 3/4 dis.
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% % •
Great North of England . ..100 ....215
Ditto, New „ 5 ~ 51%
Great Western .. 85 ••..146
Ditto, Half Shares 50 85 84% ...
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 1731 163/4
Hull and Selby .. 10..101 ..
Ditto, Halt ••hares .. 7 25 2431
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 35 50 • • •
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. ...... 425. •• .. 13u 1 dis...
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2% ••• • • •
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junet. 231 .... 1% ••• • ''
London an Birmingham . iOO 222% 224 222
• Ditto Thirds .. 24 61 M • • .... • •
Ditto Quarters .. 2 .. 28%
Ditto Fifths .. 2 .. . • • ..... •• •
London and Brighton .. 50 621 i% • • • • • • • •
London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 2134)2 34 ••. . •
London and South-Wes'ern.. 41/. 6s. 10d. 7631 75%
Ditto, New . 1214 2130 • •• • •
London and York .. 2% .. 13% %1,4
Ditto, Half Shares .. 231 • • • 1% ••••• • • • •
Londonderry and Coleraine .. 731. •• • • •
Lynn and Ely .. .. 10 .. • • 6 '•••• • • • • •
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 ....120 .... •• ..
Ditto, Half Shares .. 38 .. • • 55 •• **
Ditto, Fifths .. _ 2 ...• 10% %•••• • • • •
Ditto, Sixteenths 6M 9% • • • • • • • • • •
Ditto Extension 425. 1 %34 I, • • • • • •
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . .. 76 75% ••• • • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 2 . • 934 • •
Ditto, Quarter. Shares (C) 1 •• • • 7% • •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425...-• • P• • • • • • • •
Midland ..100 ....145 146 144....
Ditto, New .. 18 2931 30M ....
Ditto, Birmingham:and Derby 109 ....LIZ
Newcastle and Darlington Janet. 25 43% 44 .. •• ..
Ditto, New . .. 1 .... 9 831 •••• • • • •
Ditto, New, Brandling 25 .. 43 ••••• • • • • •
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 „• •173/4 x d
North British .. .. 20 •• • • *— , • ••"• • • • 7
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 6 .• • - o•••• • • • • 0
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 134 • • 1%%••• • • • • • 1%
North Staffordshire .. .. 425. •• . • 2% P• •• • 1% P
Norwich and Brandon .. .. 18 .... 23 22%
Northmpton,Hanbury,&Chelthm. 2 .. • • 34 ••••• p • • • •
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Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 1231 .. • • 814 8•••• • • • • 8
Portsmouth Direct .. 33/4 •• • • 2% ••••• • • • • • 234
Scottish Central .. _ 10 .• .• 13% ••••• • • • • • 133 s
South Midland .. 425. .. • • 14 dis• •• • • % dis.
South Eastern and Dovor 33% .. ••355436• • • • • • 36
Do., New (do. 30/.) .. No. 3. 15 .• . • 13% ••••• • • • • • 13%
I !Ditto, New (ins. at 321.) No. 1. 16 .... 16% 161 A
South Wales .. 5 .• • • 131 1•••• • • • •
Vale of Neath .. 2 .. • • 13431*
Welsh Midland .. 232 •• • • 131• •••• • • •
West Riding Union . • .. 425. •• • . 136 3134 P. • •
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 5 3 ••••• • • • •
Yarmouth and Norwich .. 20 .... 25% .... •• • •
York and Carlisle .. „ „ „ 134
York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... ••••• • • • •
Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 46 .... • •
Ditto. Extension .. .. 15 .... 32 • • .... •• • •
Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten... 1 •• .. 83/4 —• •
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dutch Rhenish .. . .. 5 .... 5% .
Grt.North. of France Constituted 5 14%
Lyons and Avignon .. 2 .... 2
Luxembourg
Namur and Liege .. .. 4 .. 114
Paris and Orleans .. .. 20

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Paris and Rouen .. .. 20 .... •• .. ••.. ••
Rouen and llavre . .. 20 .... ..
Sambre and Meuse .. . 214
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 ....

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MINES.
Brazilian Imperial (issued at 5/. p.) 21
Ditto Mac Tubas and Cocaes • • .. 25 7%
Real dcl Monte, Unregistered 314

ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
IN RE SMITH.
Mr. KINDERSLEY presented a petition on the part of
Mr. Smith, praying for the payment of certain sums of,
money in Court to the credit of this cause.
This case, which occupied the remainder of the day,
has been before the Court at least a hundred times, and
had reference to the taxation of a bill of costs. The
facts of the case have already appeared at such consider-
able length in The Sun as to render unnecessary any
detail of its peculiar features.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
THE QUEEN V. PELHAM.
The defendant in this case, Mrs. Harriet Eleanor Pel-
ham, was convicted some time back, before Mr. Justice
Williams, upon the second and third counts of an indict-
ment, which charged her with cruel and wilful neglect,
and close confinement of her illegitimate son, Brent
Spencer. The,ease again part-heard yesterday must
still be fresh in the recollection of the public from the
disgusting and filthy state in which the young man was
found, and from its many other strange and peculiar
features. The prosecution, it will be recollected,
was instituted by the parish officers of Chelsea,
who discovered that the defendant had her
son confined in her own house in the manner
laid in the indictment and obtained a magistrate's
warrant at Queen-square Police-court to make search
into the matter. The officers of police thus authorised
entered the defendant's house, where they found defen-
dant, and another son of hers, who were indignant at
the officers entering the house, and questioned their au-
thority. On entering the room where Brent Spencer
was confined, they (the officers) were disgusted with
the state in which they found the young man, repre•
sented by his mother and brother to be a lunatic. He
was stretched upon a litter of the most filthy descrip-
tion. He sat up and stared wildly at them when they
entered, his whole appearance indicating that of a ne-
glected idiot. His mouth and chin were thickly covered
with beard. The bed-covering was thick with vermin,
and the naattrass on which he lay, when taken up by the
officers, fell to pieces, being thoroughly rotten from soil,
&c. The room in which this scene of misery was exhi-
bited, and which was most offensive in smell, was almost
dark, the window, which was secured on the outside
witli iron bars, being so thickly covered with dirt, as to
greatly exclude the light. The fluor of the room was
also covered with a caked layer of dirt, defying the
officers to tell what it (the floor) was composed of. In
this melancholy state the young man had !Dam confine 4
for a spare of ten years. There was a night-chair in.,
the room, but it did not appear that lie at all made use
of it. The officers removed him to the workhouse, where
the necessary care was taken of him.
The testimony of the medical officer of the work
house was somewhat in favour of the defendant, the
young man, Brent Spencer, appearing to him to be in
good health and plump in flesh ; and it further appeared
that he did not, after the first night, use the night chair
placed in the ward for his accommodatite: exc.llnaiatlel7
as ward,
however, however, he Has occasionally Beard
stroked his beard, " What a shame that a young man,
such as I am, should be kept in confinement as I have
been." He um understood to be the illegitimate son of
tie late General Spencer, and to be indirectly connected
with a noble family.
Since the conviction of defendant, Mr. Edwin James
(with whom was Mr. Phinn), obtained a rule nisi, for
arrest of judgment, and for a new trial. In support of
the application for arresting judgment, it was contended
that the second count of the indictment was bad, be-
ethatoisueghitidtiadlineogtedaittlehhgeeedliaunwt3t,e,wrms any duty which obliged
injury
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the defendant to take care of her grown up illegitimate
sonf after he had reached the age of 21 years; nor any
acts from which
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not infer
ot a
ltlheeg existenceettriy spe c ofal
any such duty; and the third count was bad, because,
the rule, and in sQuPepO'rty
was also no proof that there had been an imprisonment
awsAtThseorNe,sult of the neglect of that duty. There
of Brent Spencer by any restraint cruelly and unneces-
sarily exercised by the defendant.
Mrecting the .1(11
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citedause sag= t.
her authorities. In the course of the Learned Gentle-
not c4pable of taking
man's argurnent, it appeared that the defendant received
491. per quarter, payable through Coutts's Bank, for the
eosftehrdisayarsghuomwer
care and maintenance of the lunatic—a noble family di-
paymept. The Learn: d Gentleman urged
that it; during the imprisonment, the lunatic (alto was
by !he exorcise of neglect of the duties which the law
imposed, such as not feeding him, or other indirect care of hirnselr), had lost his life
in-
jury, the case would be one of manslaughter against the
defendant, who had undertaken the proper care of him.
He considered the decision of the jury good ; and,
therefore, hopel the verdict would not be disturbed.
Mr. PUINN was yesterday part heard in support of
the rale for arrest of judgment, and for a new trial, and
this morning resumed and concluded his arguments.
He was followed by Mr. James ; after which their
Lordships looked into the indictment, and conferred
t 3gether for t ow: time.
The CHIEF JUSTICE then said it was better to take
time to consider the matter.
Their Lordships' decision was consequently deferred.