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

II 8T MAIMETS.
SAITTHFIET.D.—Meadow Bay, 2/10s t 31 13s ; Clover,
ditto, 31 lOs to 41 12s ; and Straw, I/ 4s to 1/ 8s
per load. Supply good, and trade very dull.
CIMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 3/ 15s ;
Clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 4/10s; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ lOs
per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand.
WHITECIIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 14s;
Clover ditto, 3/ 103 to 4/ 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 4s to
11 9s per load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices.

COAL MARK ET.—YESTERDAY.
Adair's Main lis 6dlTanfield Moor . l7s 6d
Chester Main l7s Od Wall's End, &e.
Dean's Primrose
Dipton Tanfield ...... 14s id Haswell 233 0d
New Tanfield 153 Od Ships at market... 112

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Feb. 3, 1848, made up from the Returns of MA
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Walla
per Imperial Quarter.
WIZAT. {BARLEY.' I
OATS. RTE. 1114149. 1 PE•11.
PRICE .. 152 s Od 30s 8d 21s 3d 30s 6d 1 38s 7d 436 6d
. _ .

The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Elms and
Common Juries.)
WARD, M.P., AND ANOTHER, V. CASS.

Mr. M. CHAMBERS said this was an action brought
by the plaintiff, Mr. Henry Ward, M.P., and Secre-
tary to the Admiralty, and Mr. Henry Lewin, pro-
prietor of the TVeekly Chronicle, to recover 501. from
Mrs. Anne Cass, the former proprietress of the Court
Gazette and Fashionable Guide, for machining that
journal in 1845. The periodical in question was de-
funct—it had run its career, had exhausted the
fashionable world, and at length ceased to exist itself.
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
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 Si. into court, alleging that she ceased 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
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-off,
but they had, notwithstanding their repeated appli•
cations, been unable to obtain an account of them. The
plaintiffs therefore claimed 251., the balance of the
account.

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 the
proprietress beyond the time in question.
Mr. Sergeant SUEE simply contended on behalf of
the defendant, that she ceased to have any proprietor.
ship in the journal after the 25th of June, and called
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 did not consider the defendant liable
after the 25th of June.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, before Mr.
Justice COLTMAN and a Common Jury.)
MACKINTOSH V PURCELL.

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
Arms and called for some spruce, in payment of
which he tendered half a sovereign. The bar-maii,
conceiving that it was a counterfeit one, showed it t
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 prove d
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 and
settled the matter at a public-house in the neigh
bourhood, where they had some gin, when defendant
expressed his regret, and give plaintiff half a crown
as compensation, with which plaintiff appeared
satisfied. The plaintiff, 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 JUDGE summed up, and
The jury found for the defendant.

SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuncuELL.)
TURNER V. JOHNSTONE.
This was an action to recover compensation for the
loss of a horse and damage done to a cab through the
negligence of defendant's servants.
Plaintiff is a cab proprietor, and defendant is *
road contractor at Clerkenwell. Defendant suffered
judgment to go by default.
On the part of the plaintiff it was shown that on
the 29th of November last one of plaintiff's men was
driving the horse and cab along the Ball's Pond road,
Islington, when the vehicle and the horse fell into
an excavation which had been incautiously left open,
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. The
witness for the plaintiff valued the horse at from 101.
to 121., and the repairs of the cab cost about Pl.
Plaintiff was also put to the expense of hiring another
vehicle, during the repair of his own, and was put
to an expense of 51.

On th;., part of the defendant witnesses were called
to cut down the damages; and a veterinary surgeon►
who saw it dead four days afterwards, valued it at
41. or 51. in its life time, as it was " jaded, worn►
parrot mouth, blind in both eyes, and twenty years
old." The witness's examination, however, had slight
weight, having, he said, raised the upper lip with
his toe, so as to have a view of the " superior max-
illiary."
Another witness was called, who estimated the
damage to the cab at 351. or 21.
The UNDER-SHERIFF, in summing up, said the
jury were not to consider this as a case against the
public, and punish defendant for that, as though he
been indicted, but compensate the plaintiff for the
damage he had sustained.
The jury, after consulting for wine time, gate
verdict for 201.

CRIMINAL COURT—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
FORGERY ON THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.
LaNbe Aronson, Jacob Freideburg, Raphael Kalif'
wan, and Solomon Muscovitz, the four prisoners who
were convicted yesterday of forging Russian notes,
were brought up this morning for judgment, and
sentenced—Aronson and Muscovitz to be imprisoned.
for eighteen months, with hard labour ; and Kauff-
man and Freideburg to be transported for ten years.
John Byron was charged with forging an order for
the payment of the sum of 911. 10s. dd., with intent
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 Willis,
merchant, of 37, Old Broad-street, and in that capa-
city he had access to that gentleman's cheque-book.,
On the 11th of September last a cheque for 911. 144 '
4d., purporting to have been drawn by Mr. Henri
Willis was presented to Messrs. Roharts, Curtis, ant 1
Co., and duly honoured. Upon the cheque eill g
returned to Mr. Willis' office it was discovered to be a
forgery, and on its being examined by Mr.
and two of his clerks, they recognised the b and'
writing of the prisoner. The prisoner abscon sisal
but was arrested at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The prisoner said he had written to a numb er of
individuals to attend to support his defence, but 'being
ignorant of the day on which he should he br ought
up he was afraid none of them were present. '
Several names were called at his request, ' out only
one answer was given.
Ann Bissett was the 'party who answe7 ted to the
" call," but Mr. Bodkin objected to her e
on the ground that she was married to
e prisoner.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE observed that the objectioll
could hardly be supported, seeing the ,t one of t,h,e
witnesses for the prosecution had gat )ed that t'le
prisoner was married to her sister up wards of two
years ago, and had a family of childrt Was •
witness the wife alluded to ?

Mr. BODKIN replied in the negative.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE (to the wit viess)—WhAll
were you married to the prisoner ? Wi ,tness replie'
in the month of January, 1847.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE directed that I larriet Little,
the witness who appeared for the prose ation, snuff:
presented'herself to be the sister of the p risoner's
should be recalled.
In answer to questions from the Le tailed juDGS
she stated that the prisoner was marrie d to her sister
about five years ago, and up till thet t she had been
ignorant of his second marriage.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said, under these circus'stances the witness 13issett could be e•L atm fined.
the
The witness simply proved that V r w icing onat,
cheque did not resemble the writir ,g
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in tt lettersi;
of
had read from the prisoner, ane that of 8 e lit„.
September, the day upon which the c
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e was
suited, the prisoner was ill in fdtd.