The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-03 00:00:00

WAY IVIARZETS.

SMITHFIELD. ow Hay, 21 lOs i • 3/ 13s ; Clover,
ditto, 2/ lOs to 41 12s ; aid Straw, 11 4s to 1/
per load. Supply good, and trade very dull.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 105 to 31 159 ;
Clover ditto, 31 10a to 4110 s; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 11 lOs
per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand.
WIIITECILLPEL.—Iteadow Hay, 21 Ss to Si 143;
Clover ditto, 3/ lOs t• 41 15s ; and Straw, 11 41 to
11 Ss per load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices.

COIL MARKET.—Tuerzirwr.
Adair's Main ..- 163 6dwranfleld Moor ...... 17$ 64
Chester Main 173 Od Wall's End, &s.
Dean's Primrose
Dipton Tanfield l4s 6d Haswell 283 Ild
New Tanfield lsa Od Ships at market... 112

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITICIEI CORN
For the Week ended Feb. 3, MS, made up from the Returns of UV
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Walla
per Imperial Quarter.
wissaT. muff. OATS. I IT'. 1 MUNN. I Mi.
PRICI •. I b2s [ad 'llis 3d 110 s ad SI& 7d 43s ea

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) ..,,
Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice ERLI aA
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Common Juries.)
WARD, M.P., AND ANOTHER, 11. CARS. , .1
Mr. M. CHAMBERS said this was an action brougb. 47
by the plaintiff, Mr. Henry Ward, M.P., and Sects. \\'',",
tart' to the Admiralty, and &Ir. Henry Lewin, pl.. 1.4
prietor of the Weekly Chronicle, to recover 501. frogs •"*,
.If Mrs. Anne Cass, the former proprietress of the Coot ~...
Gazelle and Fashionable Guide, for machining ti wie .‘1 ,
journal in 1845. The periodical in question was as. , ..,
funct—it had run its career, had exhausted *it ,‘`
fashionable world, and at length ceased to exist itseg
The defendant agreed to pay the plaintiffs quarterly,
and between May, 1843, and September, 1845, they ,'•
had received several sums of money from her, but
501. remained due at the end of the period. Her
last payment was in June, when she gave a cheque . k
for 201., and promised at that time to Mr. Foote, the ,
plaintiff's clerk, to give directions to her publisher
to pay the plaintiffs in future weekly instalments,
but she had not kept her promise. The defendant
had paid V. into court, alleging that she eeased to
have any proprietorship after the 25th of June in the
journal. She gave them no notice at the time to this ? .
effect, and they went on machining the journal until r:
September, up to which period she was the regis- '
tered proprietress at the Stamp-office. It appeared, '-
he said, that some claim had been set up by the de. ;--
fendant for spoiled copies, and the plaintiffs were
perfectly ready to allow a sufficient sum as a set-ok ~
but they had, notwithstanding their repeated appli-
cations, been unable to obtain an account of them. The
plaintiffs therefore claimed 351., the balance of the
account.

The Duties sn Foreign Grain ire new itupended.

Evidence was adduced to show that the defendant
had promised in December to see that the compositors
and the plaintiffs were paid ; but it was elicited
that she had invariably stated that she was not thst
proprietress beyond the time in question.
Mr. Sergeant Sung simply contended on behalf et
the defendant, that she ceased to have any proprietor-
ship in the journal after the 25th of June, and callid
a Mr. Abbott to prove the fact. Mr. Hearne, of the
Strand, it was said, became proprietor after that time.
Mr. Justice ERLE left it to the jury to say whether
the defendant was liable after the 25th of June. He
said, if she had held it out to the plaintiffs that she
was the proprietress of the journal after the period
in question, that they ought to find for the plaintiffs.
The jury gave their verdict for the defendant, and
stated that they dill not consider the defendant liable
after the 25th of June.

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SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BußciaLL.)
TURNZZ V. JOHNSTONI.
This was an action to recover compensation for the
loss of a horse and damage done to a cab through tae
negligence of defendant's servants.

'Plaintiff is a cab proprietor, and defendant is s
road contractor at Clerkenwell. Defendant suffere4
judgment to go by default.
On the part of the plaintiff it was shown that an
the 2gth of November last one of plaintiff's men wail
driving the horse and cab along the Ball's Pond roads
Islington, when the 'vehicle and the horse fell jai,
an excavation which bad been incautiously left opals,
without any light, or anything to protect the public
from accident. The horse's back was broken, and it
was necessary to have it destroyed on the road. Tile
witness for the plaintiff valued the horse at from 104
to 121., and the repairs of the cab cost about 91.
Plaintiff was also put to the expense of hiring another
vehicle, during the repair of his own, and was put
to an expense of Si.

On the part of the defendant witnesses were callk4
to cut down the damages; and a veterinary surgeon.
who saw it dead four days afterwards, valued it
41. or 51. in its life time, as it was " jaded, worot
parrot mouth, blind in both eyes, and twenty year/
old." The witness's examination, however, had slight
weight, having, he said, raised the upper lip wish
his toe, so as to have a view of the " superior maw'
illiary."
Another witness was called, who estimated the
damage to the cab at 355. or 21.
The UNDER-SIIERIFF, in summing up, said On
jury were not to consider this as a case against tto
public, and punish defendant for that, as though he
been indicted, but compensate the plaintiff for trap

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damage he had sustained.
The jury, after consulting for some time, gave 11
verdict fir 201.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY•)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)

FORGERY ON TiIN RUSSIAN COVER/ MINT.
Lagbe Aronson, Jacob Freideburg, Raphael Irate
man, and Solomon Muscovitz, the four prisoners 'W
were convicted yesterday of forging Russian nottl
were brought up this morning for judgment, snl
sentenced—Aronson and Muscovitz to be imprisoow°
for eighteen months, with hard labour; and Kauft'
man and Freideburg to be transported for ten years-
John Byron was charged with forging an order f
the payment of the sum of 911. 10s. 4d., with 41010
to defraud Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co.
Mr. Bodkin, with whom was Mr. Huddlestone
prosecuted. The prisoner was undefended.
The prisoner had been a clerk to Mr. Henry Willi*
merchant, of Sr, Old Broad-street, and in that cape'
city he had access to that gentleman's cheque-book,
On the II th of September last a cheque for 91/. I°3'
4d., purporting to have been drawn by Mr. Hell
Willis was presented to Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, an'
Co., and duly honoured. Upon the cheque bein:
returned to Mr. 'Willis' office it was discovered to be,
forgery, and on its being examined by Mr. Will. i
and two of his clerks, they recognised the hallo:
writing of the prisoner. The prisoner absconde4
but was arrested at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The prisoner said he had written to a number 4!
individuals to attend to support his defence, but bell)"
ignorant of the day on which he should be brough
up he was afraid none of them were present.
Several names were called at his request, but onV
one answer was given.
Ann Bissett was the 'party who answered to 0)
" call," but Mr. Bodkin objected to her examinstiot
on the ground that she was married to the prisoner.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGM observed that the objectil“
could hardly be supported, seeing that one of t
witnesses for the prosecution had stated that tV
prisoner was married to her sister upwards of tts
years ago, and had a family of children. WO
witness the wife alluded to?

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Mr. BODKIN replied in the negative.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE (to the witneass)--Will, on
were you married to the prisoner ? Witness rep"B—'
in the month of January, 1847.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE directed that Harriet Little'
the witness who appeared for the prosecution, 0'17:
presented herself to be the sister of the prisonees /vl—'
should be recalled.
',Air/
In answer to questions from the Learned JTJA--- „.
she stated that the prisoner was married to her silk
about five years ago, and up till then she had boo°
ignorant of his second marriage.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said, under these circusY
stances the witness Bissett could be examined.
The witness simply proved that the writing on the
t,
cheque did not resemble the writing in the letters ="1,
had read from the prisoner, and that on the 11th °'-`
September, the day upon which the chestue WO Pre-
sented, the prisoner was ill in bed.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, before Mr.
Justice COLTMAN and a Common Jury.)
MICKINTOSII V. PURCBLL.
This action was brought against the landlord of
the King's Arms public-house, in Ebury-street,
Pimlico, for false imprisonment. It appeared that
the plaintiff, in December last, went into the King's „La
Arms and called for some spruce, in payment of in
which he tendered half a sovereign. The bar-maid,
conceiving that it was a counterfeit one, showed it: 2
defendant, who called in a policeman and gave the
plaintiff into custody, and he was confined all night
in the station-house. The half-sovereign proved
after all to be a good one, and the magistrate, after
hearing the case, discharged the plaintiff, and inti•
mated that the defendant had better compromise the
matter with the plaintiff.
For the defence, it was contended, that after the
case was decided the parties went out together lad
settled the matter at a public-house in the neigh..
bourhood, where they had some gin, when defendant
expressed his regret, and gave plaintiff half a crown
as compensation, with which plaintiff appeared
satisfied. The pfaintiff, however, considered that the
half-crown was merely intended for some refreshment
for the plaintiff, and that the defendant promised to
settle with him on another occasion.
The Learned JUDGB summed up, and
The jury found for the defendant.